Scotland will receive an £820 million Budget boost because Anas Sarwar “asked” the UK Government , Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed.

Documents from the Office for Budget Responsibility show around £500m will come in resource funding — for day-to-day spending — over the next four years, and another £300m in capital — for long-term projects — over five years.

However, analysis by the Fraser of Allander Institute said the funding would be “lumpy”, with a short-term uplift as UK spending rises, followed by a squeeze as later UK-wide cuts feed through the Barnett formula.

The think tank also criticised Ms Reeves’s reliance on a “smorgasbord” of revenue-raisers rather than a straightforward rise in income tax, calling it “risky”.

Thresholds for personal taxes, including the per

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