A new study says the north east of Scotland has a case for more economic help.
Unequal income shapes perceptions of Scotland's economic health, and a wealth of new analysis has just dropped, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
England is a large and populous country with a sprawling confusion of weak local governance and that makes the devolution of power and distribution of funds a big task.Perhaps it's because of the party in government. The clue is in the name. They are not just the Scottish party but the Scottish National Party.
. Hourly pay was once 30% higher than the Scottish average but the last decade has seen that drop to a 14% premium. They've only partially recovered in the past three years of spikes and volatility and remain constrained both by uncertainty about the UK tax regime and the political uncertainty as to whether a new burst of investment will be encouraged or discouraged by Downing Street after the next election.
Scotland has had lower measures of inequality than the rest of the UK - in other words, it's less unfair - but drawing on data from before the pandemic, it was moving closer to the UK position.
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