Independence poses a threat to both levels of safety and security and the future of defence jobs in Scotland, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Edinburgh.
Independence poses a threat to both levels of safety and security and the future of defence jobs in Scotland, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told the Conservative Party conference.
Addressing the party's Scottish conference in Edinburgh, with just over six months to go until the referendum, Mr Hammond said the Scottish Government's defence plans under independence are not credible.
"A separate Scotland could not hope to develop the same level of protection and resilience," Mr Hammond said.
"Whether it's the range of military capabilities; the strength of our geopolitical influence; or the number of domestic defence jobs we are able to sustain, it is absolutely clear that replicating the UK's level of safety and security [...] under a separate Scotland is probably impossible."
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