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Rachael Burford

Government doing ‘lasting damage’ to economy, says Nicola Sturgeon, as she vows to go ahead with independence referendum

The Supreme Court will rule on whether Scotland can hold a referendum on independence

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Nicola Sturgeon has accused the Government of doing “lasting damage” to the economy as she vowed to press ahead with a Scottish independence referendum next year.

The Scottish First Minister said Liz Truss’s short tenure in No10 had been “utterly catastrophic”, after the mini-budget sunk the pound and “brought pension funds to the brink of collapse”.

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