IF this was a steady-as-she-goes Budget it was delivered in appropriate style by John Swinney.
Brisk and business-like, he rattled through his spending plans for the coming financial year almost before opposition MSPs had settled into their seats.
Only when Ken Macintosh, his Labour shadow, pressed him on some of the detail was he roused beyond a managerial monotone, berating those across the chamber indignantly for voting "against every decent measure" in his previous five budgets.
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