Salmond talks to Greens over Budget
Updated on 30 January 2009
First Minister Alex Salmond is to meet Green MSP Patrick Harvie later as part of the SNP's efforts to salvage its £33 billion budget for next year.
The talks with Mr Harvie, whose party's two votes helped send the budget crashing to a 65-64 defeat in Holyrood, are taking place in an atmosphere of growing SNP confidence that the minority administration will get its budget through at the second attempt.
Talks involving Mr Salmond, finance secretary John Swinney and other party leaders and finance spokesmen started on Thursday at Holyrood.
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