00:00Hello, I'm Rachel Emery, the Scotsman's political correspondent, and I'm here RAF Lossie Mouse,
00:08where Chancellor Rachel Weasstein is visiting. You might as well see her meeting some of the
00:12squadrons here, just behind me in the shot here. I've had a very good conversation with her,
00:17a lot to speak about taxes, particularly the windfall tax for example, and Whiskey
00:22Tariffs as well. She says that she is working hard to try and see what to do with that thing,
00:27about very much emphasising that Scotland does have one of the best trade deals with
00:30the US, although it will not be 0%. I'm also trying to take a bit of a swipe at the SNP
00:36as well, repeating the phrase that they're playing student politics at the moment and
00:40are too distracted by things such as independence. You might have seen that John Swinney does
00:44have a recent push again for independence in Scotland, so very much want to take a bit
00:49of a pop at that and criticise the SNP there too. And as you'd expect as well, a mention
00:54of how much she wants to see Scottish Labour winning the 2026 Hollywood election and to
00:58see Anna Sauer as First Minister. So plenty to be then discussing with Richard Weas's visit.
01:03And if you look at the Scotsman's website, you'll see all the stories of what's happened
01:06in Scotland.
01:07Like, it's a big one. So how do you get to that?
01:08Like, you're just trying to get to that.
01:09Like, I don't know if that's not a big one. I think I've got a bit of an elephant.
01:10Yeah. I've got a bit of a slight, a little bit of a gap to get to that.
01:11Yeah, I think it's a slight iron band.
01:13I think I've got to get to that.
01:16Or in energy.
01:17You've talked about 18,000 jobs in oil and gas there. The industry, according to
01:23the day-again...
01:28Yeah.
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