As both SNP media attention and membership soared, was this inadequate little report inserted into a Reporting Scotland broadcast to satisfy the expectations of the Scottish Conservatives that their older audience/voters be warned not to start liking the SNP? Murdo Fraser and Blair McDougall had been tweeting about the IFS report, in this light, the same day.
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/06/17/reporting-scotland-uses-discredited-right-wing-fundamentalist-thinktank-to-try-to-undermine-snp/