Gary Gibbon
Independence, ghosts and ‘Stormont Scotland’
Prof Sir Tom Devine believes that if the yes side win, it will be thanks to something that was for decades unimaginable: Catholics voting for independence.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: will an independent Scotland be better or worse off?
Scots will either be £1,000 better off or £1,400 worse off if they vote for independence, according to the UK and Scottish governments. Who to believe?
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EuroMillions couple dominates Scottish Yes donations
New figures show lottery winners Chris and Colin Weir have given £2.5m to the campaign for Scottish independence over the last year.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown, the union, and spirals of silence
Gordon Brown had been intending to give the all-party Better Together campaign a wide berth. But then the narrowing of the polls happened. And in Scotland the former PM still has a lot of weight.
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Brown calls on Scotland to reject independence
The former prime minister Gordon Brown makes his first major intervention in the Scottish referendum debate with a speech calling on the country to vote no to independence.
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Scotland: battered wife or kid brother?
Scottish stand-up comics Andy Todd and Fern Brady see the funny side of the independence referendum, even if they are on opposite sides of the debate.
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Salmond comes out fighting in currency row
Scotland’s first minister says unnamed minister’s admission that Scotland could keep the pound is a “demolition” of the No campaign’s position.
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Cathy Newman
Scottish politician seeks independent woman for voting commitment
Many more women have been elected to political office in Scotland than at Westminster, but female voters remain sceptical about independence.
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FactCheck: has Salmond slipped up on Scotland’s oil?
Scotland’s oil is worth £1.5 trillion and will make the country one of the wealthiest in the world, according to the first minister. Is he right?
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Gary Gibbon
Cabinet tag
The no camp set out to vanquish independence and keep yes support in the low 30s. I haven’t heard many no campaigners predict the “low 30s” for the yes campaign in some time.
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FactCheck: would an independent Scotland stay in the EU?
The president of the European Commission thinks an independent Scotland will find it very difficult to join the EU. The SNP has called his comments “preposterous”. Who’s right?
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The end of Britain? Cameron’s Scotland speech
The prime minister delivers a speech from the Olympic Park in east London on the importance of Scotland remaining inside the United Kingdom.
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Mark Carney on Scotland and the pound
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says the eurozone crisis shows what could happen if an independent Scotland retains the pound without firm foundations being put in place.
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How independent would Scotland really be?
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says an independent Scotland would have to cede some of its national sovereignty if it wants to keep the pound.
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Gary Gibbon
Salmond and the holy book
Alex Salmond restrained himself from the usual swatting of unappealing questioners. He made a page reference to his weighty document in almost every answer like a clergyman citing the Bible.
