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Scotland set for skills and innovation boost as £50 million defence growth deal unveiled

Author / Creator: UK Government

Media type: Press Release

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Scotland’s crucial role in UK defence is to be boosted, as Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard and Secretary of State for Scotland, Douglas Alexander today launched a landmark £50 million Scotland Defence Growth Deal.  


Swinney must move beyond old orthodoxies

Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane

Media type: Article

Date published:

John Swinney, Scotland’s new first minister, faces no shortage of challenges. Lurking behind many of them lies a common cause: an economy that is not working.


Sorted. A handbook for a better Scotland

Author / Creator: Commonweal

Media type: book

Date published: 2022

'Sorted' is a vision for a shared future in an independent Scotland.  A future which puts all of us first. It looks at what's possible and describes how we can make independence and Scotland successful.


5 reasons Scotland would thrive as an independent nation (updated)

Author / Creator: Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp

Media type: Web site

Date published: 2019

Scotland is economically viable as it has natural resources, a skilled population, strong trading relations, excellent industrial sectors and products, and a well developed financial sector.