FOI: Sturgeon lied to Andrew Neil and then tried to cover it up
Does anyone remember this remarkable exchange during the last election? Sturgeon: “You can illustrate this point by looking backwards, if the Growth Commission recommendations on spending in an independent Scotland had been applied over the past 10 years Scotland wouldn’t have suffered the austerity cuts that we had suffered” Andrew Neil: “I saw a figure that said that the cuts would have been £50bn more over 10 years” Sturgeon: “I can assure you that’s not the case” Andrew Neil: “Where’s the economic model that has done that?” Sturgeon: “If you apply those figures…” Andrew Neil: “Who’s done that modelling?” Sturgeon: “Em, huh, I don.. had that done figure done by…. Scottish Government” Nicola Strugeon faired about as well as anyone else interviewed by Andrew Neil, in that she barely survived. But it was this exchange that really stuck with me. If you watch it very carefully you can see Sturgeon was incredibly shifty when i