Lesley’s guests on Riddoch Questions this week are the Scotland Office Minister and Inverclyde MP David Cairns, Shadow Scottish Secretary and MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, David Mundell and Scotland’s deputy First Minister and MSP for Glasgow Govan, Nicola Sturgeon.
The stories up for discussion so far this week:
• GLASGOW EAST BY-ELECTION – It’s almost D-day for Labour. Are SNP claims of a 15% swing credible? And can the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives do anything but play catch up?
• INFLATION - Rising food and fuel costs has pushed UK inflation up to an 11-year high of 3.8%, it’s thought our annual food, fuel and power bills are on average £1800 higher than they were last year, and it’s claimed low-income parents in Scotland can’t afford to have a job because of the cost of childcare. So is the only light at the end of the tunnel – the postponing of a 2 percent increase in fuel duty - really enough to alleviate our financial worries?
• TAX HAVEN ISLANDS - A campaign’s begun to grant tax haven status to a group of remote islands off the west coast of Ireland. Local people believe it would guarantee their isolated communities a future – so would following the lead of the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands work in the same way for Scotland’s remote communities?
Email your questions on these stories now to riddoch@bbc.co.uk. Add your phone number if you want to put the question in person. On Friday text your views to 80295 and call 0500 92 95 00.
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