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Xander Elliards

SNP plan for independent Scotland's currency 'not credible', expert warns

First Minister John Swinney, who was finance secretary in 2014, pictured with the SNP Cabinet after the 2026 Holyrood elections (Image: PA)

SNP ministers are acting like “domesticated cats” at Holyrood and do not “realise what it really takes” to become an independent country, according to an expert in macroeconomics.

Thibault Laurentjoye, an associate professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, further told The National Podcast that the SNP Government’s policy for currency in an independent Scotland was not credible – and that the Yes side has been “literally unprepared” for the debate in 2014.

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