On track to smallest state since 1930s? Not if Vince can help it
One Treasury source said this was “just where the graph lines happened to end up,” implying no champagne popping pencilled in for the big day five years off.
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One Treasury source said this was “just where the graph lines happened to end up,” implying no champagne popping pencilled in for the big day five years off.
Had Osborne’s 2010 predictions actually happened, the deficit would be small, the debt falling, and the much vaunted rebalancing of the economy would have taken place.
The SNP’s message all day has been that there’s less to the devolution deal than meets the eye. This afternoon they got support for that proposition from the former Labour First Minister Lord (Jack) McConnell.
Jim Murphy, the front-runner for leadership of the Scottish Labour party, decides he does want full tax devolution to Scotland after all.
Given the shock-waves still emenating from Scotland, Labour’s more or less given up on getting mega publicity for more than one day this week. It’s putting all its hopes in tomorrow’s leader’s speech.
Does the name Jean Chrétien sound familiar? Perhaps it should. It certainly is to the Westminster politicians who sought his advice as they fought to keep Scotland a part of the union.
Scotland votes no in a historic independence referendum – by a margin of 55 per cent to 45 per cent – meaning the union will stay together.
The polls have closed and the votes are being counted. Should Scotland be an independent country? That was the question for the Scottish people: tonight, overnight, we will find out the answer.
Voting is under way on a historic day for Scotland as people determine whether the country should stay part of the United Kingdom or become an independent nation.
New polls suggest that the Scottish referendum battle remains too close to call as both sides gear up for a frantic last day of campaigning.
Are you voting in Scotland on Thursday? Then read this – 10 things you need to know about the referendum vote (but may have been scared to ask).
If it’s a no vote on Thursday, Gordon Brown will feel he played a central role in helping to save the union. Quite a few others will agree.
Alex Salmond and David Cameron lock horns just days before Scotland’s independence referendum, with the prime minister warning that a yes vote would “break up our family of nations”.
The latest clutch of polls show no clear prediction of which way Scotland will vote in Thursday’s independence referendum.
Nicola Sturgeon tells Channel 4 News she is confident of victory in Thursday’s independence referendum, and warns nationalists not to get involved in negative campaigning.