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Focus on jobs, schools and hospitals, Sturgeon told after renewed independence bid

SCOTTISH Labour told Nicola Sturgeon to “focus on jobs, schools and hospitals” today after she vowed to “restart the debate” on Scottish independence.

The SNP leader said the publication of the party’s economic growth commission this week would offer the opportunity for a debate on Scotland’s future.

Set up in 2016, the commission analyses economic policy for an independent Scotland and reports have suggested it will back the creation of a Scottish currency.

“Once we get some clarity, which hopefully we will in the autumn of this year, about the Brexit outcome and the future relationship between the UK and the EU, then I will consider again this question of the timing of an independence referendum,” the First Minister told ITV’s Peston on Sunday.

“Over the next couple of weeks we will, I suppose, restart a debate about why independence for Scotland is an opportunity and what those opportunities are.”

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called it the “economics of dereliction.”

He said: “Scotland does not need, and the people of Scotland do not want, this tired argument again. The SNP should recognise that and focus instead on jobs, schools and hospitals.”

 

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