Also: Gaddafi’s ex-spymaster offers to reveal IRA connexions; and Welsh Tories double down on grammar schools.
The grim reality is food banks would be the only kind of bank blossoming in an independent Scotland.
Also: Lib Dems duck joined-up grant reform by just giving Wales more money; anti-Israel petition for resignation of Glagow’s Tory councillor over flag tweet.
Share power. Share wealth. Embrace an entity bigger than your own ethnicity. The United Kingdom is an example to follow.
Resolving the West Lothian Question whilst defending ‘British’ government will be one of the great challenges of the next Parliament.
What works for Panama with the dollar could work after independence with the pound.
The fieriest moments in last night’s independence debate were around the issue of Scotland’s currency. Can Salmond be sure of keeping the Pound?
Also: Villiers’ proposal on parades dispute ‘sunk’ by nationalists; new complaints regulator needed to combat NHS ‘defensiveness’ in Wales.
Salmond promises cash he doesn’t have because his strategy is coming unstuck.
Also: Welsh Tory leader denies blackmail ‘cover up’; Sinn Fein accused of intimidating businesses over Gaza; and Ann Clwyd reconsiders retirement.
Also: PM stands by attacks on Cardiff government in visit to Royal Welsh Show; and Scottish businesses urged to make plans for rUK.
The Scottish Tory leader just demonstrated how she can be the perfect antidote to Salmond.
Also: Stormont flirts with disaster over budget deadlock; ‘Help to Buy’ sees Scotland run out of bricks; and BBC staff plan Commonwealth Games strike.
They promised to address the West Lothian Question. Now they’re just ignoring it. If they carry on, UKIP and Labour will capitalise.
And Britain and her economy deserve better than that. Politics ought, in the first place, to be about doing the right thing.