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We remain the second most attractive for foreign investors to the United Kingdom after London and, in 2017, visitors voted Scotland the world’s most beautiful country.
In Dumfries and Galloway, there were two events to celebrate the centenary—one in Port Rodie in Stranraer and the other in Cornwall Mount in Dumfries. As it happened, on 26 June, I had a meeting arranged with the V division commander, Mike Leslie.
The AAA scare, which was one of the earliest scares of the no campaign, was blown out of the water the moment the UK lost its AAA credit rating, because it did not have the implications for the UK that the no campaign had said that not having a AAA credit rating would have for an independent Scotland.
If someone has £1 of eligibility for universal credit, they might get those things, but someone who has no eligibility for UC will not get any of them.
Boris Johnson said that on the day on which he will plunge millions into poverty with the cut to universal credit. An independent Scotland would meet its international obligations on foreign aid, and it would not support the selling of arms to the Yemen, whose long-suffering people Alex Rowley mentioned.