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Speculation around chancellor Rachel Reeves’s UK Budget has presented Scotland’s finance secretary Shona Robison with a big question: will she put up the income tax that she controls?

The Â鶹Éç’s Phil Sim and Paris Gourtsoyannis talk us through how the budgets, and the Holyrood election, are looming over nervous politicians.

Scotcast is the Â鶹Éç’s Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.

Get in touch: scotcast@bbc.co.uk