Scottish independence is "highly sophisticated", the SNP's economics guru has insisted. Andrew Wilson, who wrote a controversial report on the costs of splitting from the UK, said Scotland could no longer afford to remain in the UK.
He claimed Britain "has been in a slow descent for some time" and called for Scots to be given the option to choose their own path.But the Tories said the SNP still couldn't answer "critical questions" on how independence would work.
In an article for The Spectator, a right-wing London-based magazine, Wilson said: "The opinion polls that show a growing majority for Scottish independence will mystify those who believe the lazy, metropolitan idea that independence is an emotional fantasy — all Braveheart,.
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