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30Nov 07
St Andrew’s Day Keynote speech at University of Edinburgh: A New Agenda for Scotland
A Keynote Lecture on a Future Vision for Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, Friday 30th November, 2007:
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17Aug 07
Candidate Launch Speech for Scottish Parliament Labour Goup Leader
I really appreciate you all coming along today at what was, in truth, very short notice. As you might have expected I have a speech prepared and a few things that I want to say to you, but in many ways the first sentence that I wrote was the easiest and the most important. Read more »
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01Mar 07
Clydesdale Bank Speech
Globalisation is biggest the economic challenge of our age. Competition is increasingly not simply from “down the road” but from “across the globe”.
And faced with this enormous challenge the Scottish economy is picking up the pace. And it is not just the record profits of Scotland’s big banks I am thinking of.
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19Jan 07
Scotland on Sunday Union Debate Speech
Good evening – and happy anniversary!
Let me begin with my vision for Scotland.
By 2020 my children will be 14, and all going well, they will be starting to plan for their futures.
I hope the country they inherit will be outward looking, fair- minded, and multi-cultured. They will be proud of their past but feel citizens of Scotland, Britain, Europe and the world.
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18Dec 06
Letter to the Herald
The SNP have had a bad week. This was the week when the choice before the people of Scotland next May came into focus.
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16Dec 06
The Case For Union (FT Article)
May 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the Union and coincides with the Scottish Parliament elections at which the SNP will advocate ending that Union; a position that would trade significant union benefits for an irrationaa risky gamble on volatile oil revenues.
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16Dec 06
Letter to the Herald
The SNP have had a bad week. This was the week when the choice before the people of Scotland next May came into focus. It was the week when Labour shone a light on the so-called oil fund and found that the cupboard was bare. The SNP set the tone last Saturday when they accused the nation’s statisticians of being involved in “a discredited, inaccurate and political exercise”. Such a cheap shot was simply a foretaste.
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11Dec 06
Sunday Express piece on SNP
Remember the 1970s? The SNP do. The back of a Bay City Rollers album seems to be where the nationalists have rediscovered and dusted off their policy of “It’s Scotland’s Oil” and independence.
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04Dec 06
Scotsman Piece on Oil
Alex Salmond was once in the oil business. Last week he was in Norway talking oil. This week he was issuing dossiers demanding we don’t “lose it to London”.
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29Nov 06
Glasgow Airport Rail Link Bill: Final Stage
Ms Wendy Alexander (Paisley North) (Lab): I thank the convener for her stewardship of the bill through the parliamentary process. As the minister said, Parliament has already debated the economic contribution that GARL can make to the economic competitiveness of the whole of the west of Scotland—that is the essential case for the bill.
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