FAI Deputy Director Joao Sousa is joined by Ed Poole and Guto Ifan of the Wales Governance Centre and FAI Director Mairi Spowage to talk about the developments on the campaign trail in Wales and Scotland, including discussions about the publication of costings and the trade-offs that parties are mostly avoiding.
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Timestamps
(0:05) Introductions
(1:18) Rows about costings publications in Wales
(6:06) Costings publications in Scotland
(9:56) The effect of List PR on the manifesto contents
(14:30) Current vs capital block grants
(16:52) What we can expect in the coming week
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Authors
João is Deputy Director and Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, he was a Senior Fiscal Analyst at the Office for Budget Responsibility, where he led on analysis of long-term sustainability of the UK's public finances and on the effect of economic developments and fiscal policy on the UK's medium-term outlook.
Ed Gareth Poole
Ed is Reader in Reader in Politics at Cardiff University and part of the Wales Governance Centre
Guto Ifan
Guto is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University and part of the Wales Governance Centre
Mairi is the Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and the Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government and has over a decade of experience working in different areas of statistics and analysis.