GORDON Brown will head to Glasgow next week to launch a new report calling for closer ties between Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Brown think-tank Our Scottish Future will say that Scotland should be better connected in order to use the “financial muscle” of London, Oxford, and Cambridge in order to improve business innovation.
Our Scottish Future’s Engine of the North report also recommends setting up new local “innovation forums” which bring together academics and businesses to come up with ideas to boost productivity.