If his warm words about poverty in Scotland meant anything in terms of the policies that he wants to pursue, they might mean something for those families in Scotland that still require assistance from us.The truth is that not only would Mr Sheridan go as far as the Scottish nationalists in ensuring that Scotland's economy was weaker than it is today by ripping Scotland away from our markets and from the jobs that are created through our connections with the rest of the United Kingdom but, worse still, if he had that independent state, he would take the spending on education, health, child care, jobs, regeneration, housing and all the other priorities that we announced yesterday and use it to renationalise companies and do the sort of things that he wants to see because of his ideological and so-called principled position. He is wrong in his analysis. He may...