Stephen Gethins
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Alison Taylor
Spending Review 2025: Scotland
The following extract is from the Westminster Hall debate on Spending Review 2025: Scotland on 2 July 2025.
Stephen Gethins
The hon. Member mentioned low growth. We know that growth has been hampered by our being outside the single market and the customs union—that is not just my analysis but that of most economists—so can she tell me why Scottish Labour has abandoned the policy it adopted after the Brexit referendum of rejoining the single market and the customs union?
Alison Taylor
I completely disagree with the hon. Gentleman. In my view, low growth in Scotland has been related to the threat of a second independence referendum, and I would put the blame for the low growth firmly in the hon. Gentleman’s hands.
[Official Report, 2 July 2025; Vol. 770, c. 119WH.]
Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Alison Taylor):