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Evening Standard
Politics
Craig Paton

Swinney insulting intelligence of Scottish people on independence, says Starmer

The Prime Minister spoke to Scottish journalists in Downing Street on Monday (Leon Neal/PA) - (PA Wire)

John Swinney is “insulting the intelligence” of the Scottish people on independence, the Prime Minister has said.

The First Minister’s plans for breaking away from the UK were rubber-stamped by SNP members at their conference last weekend, with a majority for the party being set as the bar for another referendum, as it was in 2011.

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