After Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his budget this week, Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon is joined on the Planet Holyrood podcast by Sunday Mail Political Editor John Ferguson and Scottish Express Digital Editor Douglas Dickie to discuss the Tory party civil war over oil windfall tax, the National Insurance cut 'election bribe', child benefit changes - and a possible snap general election as early as May.

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SNP and Green MSPs have voted through the Scottish Government Budget for the year ahead which includes a tax hike for high-earners. Shona Robison, the Finance Secretary, claimed today the creation of a new 45 per cent "advanced" rate of income tax for Scots earning between £75,000 and £125,140 would help fund the NHS.

Meanwhile, supermarkets could be banned from selling meal deals and restaurants prevented from offering free drinks refills under plans being considered by SNP ministers.

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The SNP has called for Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to stand down after the Gaza vote farce on Wednesday night, with the party's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn saying he no longer has confidence in Hoyle to carry out his job impartially.

It comes after the SNP stormed out of the chamber last night after the party's motion demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was ditched amid chaotic scenes.

Meanwhile, police investigating SNP finances have reportedly asked to re-interview party staff members. Detectives linked to Operation Branchform have sent letters to office workers employed by the Nationalists asking to speak with them.

The Daily Record's political editor Paul Hutcheon speaks with the Sunday Mail's Hannah Rodger and Douglas Dickie of the Scottish Daily Express.

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Health Secretary Michael Matheson has quit after an investigation into his iPad data roaming bill scandal.

Matheson has been under huge pressure over the £11,000 bill he racked up a family holiday in Morocco. He eventually conceded his children had used the device to stream football and paid back the money.

However, he faced claims of lying to the media and the scandal became a huge embarrassment to Humza Yousaf's Government.

An influential Green MSP has also raised the prospect of creating even more income tax bands to generate extra cash from the wealthy. Ross Greer, a West of Scotland MSP, is not a minister but is considered to be the key figure striking policy deals behind the scenes with Yousaf's Government.

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Nicola Sturgeon, who led the Scottish Government response to the global health crisis, answered questions for several hours at the UK Covid Inquiry this week.

She admitted her biggest regret from the pandemic is not having introduced lockdown sooner. The former First Minister went on to deny the decisions she took during the pandemic were done for political reasons, adding she had not “thought less” about politics in her life than she did during the pandemic.

But will the implications of what was revealed about her conduct affect her legacy and wider trust in politics?

The Daily Record's political editor Paul Hutcheon speaks with the Sunday Mail's Hannah Rodger and Douglas Dickie of the Scottish Daily Express.

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Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon is joined on the Planet Holyrood podcast by Sunday Mail Political Editor John Ferguson and Scottish Express Editor Ben Borland to discuss the ongoing Covid Inquiry in Edinburgh where Jason Leitch, Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon are all giving evidence.

Current First Minister Humza Yousaf just doesn’t seem to be able to get a break and is forever haunted by his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon after it was revealed she deleted her WhatsApp messages during the pandemic. Scotland’s Partygate? 

Ben Borland argues covid should have been treated as a civil emergency, not as a health issue, which would have given the UK government control over the pandemic response.

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The Prime Minister has announced he is introducing legislation to overturn the convictions of sub-postmasters in England and Wales, with Humza Yousaf following suit in a UK-wide plan.

It is estimated that more than 700 people across the UK were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office between 2000 and 2014 as a result of the faulty Horizon system installed by IT giant Fujitsu.

Meanwhile, hundreds of university places for Scots students will be slashed as part of government budget cuts, a top SNP minister has admitted. Shona Robison told MSPs this week that 1,200 spaces for first year undergraduates would be axed.

A new opinion poll also shows Keir Starmer’s Labour is in line for a 120-seat majority at the general election.

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The general election campaign in Scotland appears to be kickstarted as the SNP and Labour leaders set out their cases to voters.

Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar both delivered set-piece speeches in which they attempted to convince Scots that only their party can provide real change to the tired Tories.

Meanwhile, the Post Office acted like gangsters in Scotland by going "door-to-door" to "extort money from sub-postmasters" caught up in the Horizon scandal, MSPs have been told.

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Shona Robison has unveiled her Scottish Government budget, hiking taxes for higher-earning Scots in an attempt to plug a £1.5 billion blackhole. The housing budget was however slashed from £738.3 million to £533.2 million, including a cut of £188.8 million to the housebuilding budget.

The Deputy First Minister also confirmed any further legal challenge to recent rulings on the controversial gender recognition reform will be scrapped, but pledged to “robustly defend” the Scottish Parliament.

The Record's Paul Hutcheon is joined by the Sunday Mail's Hannah Rodger and Ben Borland of the Scottish Daily Express to chew over the latest in Scottish politics.

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Paul Hutcheon is joined by Sunday Mail political editor John Ferguson and the Daily Record's Chief Writer Anna Burnside to look at the latest from Scottish and UK politics

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