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Alex Salmond: Let Scotland decide its own future

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond told a party conference this afternoon "It's about putting Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.

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Scottish Tories: Women can spot a dodgy chat up line

Alex Salmond "failed to provide voters with the real facts and costs of separation" following his speech this afternoon, said the Scottish Conservatives.

The party's chief whip John Lamont also attacked Mr Salmond's bid to woo more female voters with the promise of more women in his party, saying, "Alex Salmond knows he has a problem appealing to half of the electorate, but women can spot a dodgy chat up line when they hear it."

Experts said Alex Salmond must deliver the speech of his life today, but he fell far short of appealing to people beyond die-hard Nationalists.

This was what we have become used to from the First Minister - full of assertions and repeating the same, tired divisive rhetoric of how everything is Westminster's fault.

It was gripe and grievance politics without giving the people of Scotland the real facts or costs about independence.

– Scottish Conservatives party chief whip John Lamont
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