Alex Salmond has compared George Osborne’s warnings over Scottish independence and ruling out of sharing sterling with Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “sermon on the mound” to Scottish Christians 25 years ago.
Alex Salmond has compared George Osborne’s warnings over Scottish independence with Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “sermon on the mound” to Scottish Christians 25 years ago.
In her 1988 speech in Edinburgh, Thatcher was seen as using her religious convictions to justify policies to a part of the UK that largely rejected them.
The Scottish first minister said the chancellor’s decision to rule out a currency share with an independent Scotland would equally be seen as a "monumental error" in the run up to September’s referendum.
In the Westminster lecture, hosted by the New Statesman, Salmond also criticised the UK government’s “Dambusters strategy”, with the prime minister appealing for Scots to remain in the union while Osborne warned they would lose the pound.
"We were love-bombed from a distance by David Cameron, then dive-bombed at close range by George Osborne,” he said.
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