NEXT year’s GERS figures may be “fortuitous” for the pro-independence movement, painting a “relatively rosy picture” of Scotland’s finances in the critical months before a second referendum, a leading economics think-tank has said.
In a response to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland figures published on Wednesday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) highlighted how they showed “that Scotland’s underlying deficit fell by more than that of the UK as a whole last year, when measured as a percent of GDP”.
