The Budget will pass, and there is no chance of a snap Scottish Parliament election.
The minority SNP Government needed help to get its spending plans through.
They already had the support of former SNP MSPs John Mason, now an independent, and Ash Regan, now Alba, but that still wasn’t enough.
The finance secretary and First Minister have been in talks with opposition parties for quite a while. Talks with the Greens and Lib Dems had been going well from the outset.
The Lib Dems had already secured funding specifically for the Belford Hospital and the Edinburgh Eye Pavilion. On Tuesday, they’ve got more for drugs treatment and hospices.
The Greens had been holding out for free school meals to be extended to all P6 and P7s – they haven’t got that but they have got a pilot in eight council areas for free meals for S1 to S3 pupils on benefits.
They had also wanted a £2 bus fare cap – they’ve compromised on a pilot, maybe in the north-east of Scotland.
The finance secretary admits that she could not have done these deals without the increase in the block grant funding from the UK Labour Government Budget.
The Tories will vote against the Budget but for now they are attacking Labour for, they say, “handing the SNP the cheapest Budget deal in history”.
At the start of this month, Labour said they would abstain on the Budget vote – that guaranteed it would pass. One minister said to me that Labour got exactly what they had asked for in Budget negotiations – nothing.
So the Budget will pass – the bargains have been struck, now it’s all down to delivery.
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