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Fat-free future will require some pain

Scotland Secretary Jim Murphy’s warning that the Scottish Government will have to “go on a bit of a diet” will hardly come as news to Alex Salmond.

The less than festive message from Dover House to Bute House was presaged in the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report which removed hope of £350m of accelerated capital from the 2010-11 budget to the Scottish Government.