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Alex Salmond
Information about this person was last updated on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.
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Scottish independence vote could hit finance industry
January 8, 2012 - January 30, 2012
SNP landslide puts break-up of Britain on political agenda
May 2, 2011 - May 8, 2011
EU summit: A day for Britain to salute David Cameron
December 10, 2011 - December 13, 2011
'A real knock' says embattled Clegg over lost seats
May 5, 2011 - May 6, 2011
Youth unemployment surge triggers worst jobless rise in two years
September 14, 2011 - September 15, 2011
Live: Fall of Tripoli
August 29, 2011 - August 30, 2011
Coalition allies continue Libya air strikes
April 13, 2011 - April 15, 2011
Scotland Stands By Lockerbie Bomber Decision
August 15, 2011 - August 20, 2011
Scottish Conservative Party could be disbanded because the brand is so toxic north of the border
September 4, 2011 - September 5, 2011
Davidson is new Scots Tory leader
November 6, 2011 - November 6, 2011
Pandas 'very well' but jet lagged
November 28, 2011 - November 28, 2011
Salmond at British Irish summit
January 13, 2012 - January 13, 2012
An hour for our Earth
March 27, 2011 - March 27, 2011
Ministers 'wanted bomber release'
February 7, 2011 - February 7, 2011
'Hundreds of tonnes' in oil spill
August 15, 2011 - August 15, 2011
Clegg vows to veto NHS reforms
May 8, 2011 - May 8, 2011
Ireland's Enda Kenny warns of need for more austerity
December 14, 2011 - December 14, 2011
RBS chairman waives $2.2 million bonus after Hester row (Reuters)
January 28, 2012 - January 28, 2012
Ed Miliband to marry long-term partner Justine Thornton today
May 21, 2011 - May 21, 2011
Stocks drop as ECB rules out help
December 15, 2011 - December 15, 2011
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[said:]: All the claims these inept Whitehall sources are making against an independent Scotland would apply equally to the rest of the UK – and they are equally ridiculous.
express 06-FEB-12
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[said:]: The eyes of the world will be on Scotland during 2014, with international events such as the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup being held on our shores.
egovmonitor 06-FEB-12
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[had said:]: I like salmon.
guardian 06-FEB-12
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[said:]: The First Minister was rightly referring to over-officious BBC officials, and the real concerns about editorial decisions taken by BBC journalists being overruled by bureaucrats on political grounds. As the Sunday Herald copy says,
express 05-FEB-12
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[said:]: Jobs and economic growth are this government’s top priorities and I think youth employment most of all is critical. The economic cost of unemployment is significant but the cost of youth unemployment in disaffection and disillusionment is even greater.
egovmonitor 02-FEB-12
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[said:]: There is absolutely nothing more important than giving hope and opportunity and life chances to the young people of Scotland. If we dedicate ourselves to that task, then there will be something special emerging from this forum which will matter an enormous amount.
sundaymail 01-FEB-12
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[added:]: What is the diversion from? The serious issues in the economy and secondly, of course, the question of how you justify in the public sector the mass of workers being offered one settlement and people in the financial sector, who are in the public sector, being offered quite different circumstances.
bbc 01-FEB-12
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[said:]: The Forfeiture Committee were tasked with considering Fred Goodwin’s honour, and this is the correct decision, given that his knighthood was for ‘services to banking’ which could not therefore be sustained.
express 01-FEB-12
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[said:]: I am extremely pleased to welcome this inward investment by Samsung Heavy Industries, which further reinforces Scotland's place in the development of the next generation of offshore wind turbines.
bbc 31-JAN-12
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[said:]: This is a welcome development but it should never have come to this stage as these circumstances cannot be left to individual decisions. They must be a matter of public policy.
thisdayonline 30-JAN-12
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[-said]: An independent Scotland could be a beacon for progressive opinion south of the border and further afield,
guardian 30-JAN-12
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[said:]: I don't think it's a very good idea to confuse the issue by talking about united kingdoms when what we're talking about is political independence.
icWales 29-JAN-12
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[said:]: Michelle's concerns seem to be predicated on the idea that we'd put tax up.
bbc 29-JAN-12
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[said:]: The Daily Mirror tried to argue that if Scotland voted for independence, the Edinburgh Zoo pandas might somehow be seized by the UK government. I can tell you that I have decided to grant Tian Tian and Yang Guang political asylum.
scmp 29-JAN-12
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[ said]: I think that some of that increase in support for independence is a reaction against the sort of dictatorial line we've been getting from some of the pronouncements from Downing Street,
guardian 29-JAN-12
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[replied:]: It is inconceivable that an independent nation of 5.25m people would tolerate the continued presence of weapons of mass destruction on its soil.
guardian 29-JAN-12
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[admits:]: Ours is a lucky nation, blessed with natural resources, bright people and a united society. We have an independent education system, legal system and National Health Service. Scotland is not oppressed and we have no need to be liberated.
theglobeandmail 28-JAN-12
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[said:]: With independence we can have a new social union with the other nations with these islands, we will continue to share Her Majesty the Queen as head of state but we will not have our young service men and women dragged in to illegal wars like Iraq and we wont have nuclear weapons based on Scottish soil.
u 27-JAN-12
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[said:]: I knew it had to be Donald, because he was the only person in the Scottish Labour party who would know what a shibboleth was.
guardian 27-JAN-12
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[-said]: It was in this venue, Edinburgh castle, that the first ... old Scots parliament was held almost 900 years ago,
news 26-JAN-12
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[said:]: Scotland as an independent nation would play an active and responsible role in the international community – contributing on issues where it could, such as climate change.
egovmonitor 26-JAN-12
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[said:]: The people who live in Scotland are the best people to make decisions about Scotland’s future. The referendum will be held in autumn 2014 on the same terms as any Scottish election, to the same standards and with the same guarantee of fairness. We will decide our future in a vote which is beyond challenge or doubt.
egovmonitor 26-JAN-12
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[said:]: The referendum will be held in autumn 2014 on the same terms as any Scottish election, to the same standards and with the same fairness.
express 26-JAN-12
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[-said]: We will be able to make Scotland the country we all know it can be -- a wealthier, fairer nation,
ibtimes 26-JAN-12
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[said:]: It is right that our young people should have the chance to play their part in decisions about their community and their country.
sundaymail 25-JAN-12
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[said:]: The bird has flown, and cannot now be returned to its cage.
sundaymail 25-JAN-12
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[said:]: Independence matters because without it we do not have the powers to reach our potential. We are limited in what we can do to create jobs, grow our economy and help the vulnerable. To achieve this we shouldn't have a constitution that restrains us, but one which frees us to build a better society.
guardian 25-JAN-12
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[-said]: If there is an alternative of maximum devolution which would command wide support in Scotland, then it is only fair and democratic that option should be among the choices open to the people of Scotland,
AP 25-JAN-12
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[-told]: The people who live in Scotland are the best people to make decisions about their own future. Of that there can be no doubt,
cyprus 25-JAN-12
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[said:]: It is right that our young people should have the chance to play their part in decisions about their community and their country. If a 16-year-old in Scotland can register to join the Army, get married and pay taxes, surely he or she should be able to have a say in this country's constitutional future?
icWales 25-JAN-12
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[said:]: The pro-independence campaign will enthuse and engage people... with our positive vision for the future of the country.
independent 25-JAN-12
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[said that:]: friendship will flourish
telegraph 25-JAN-12
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[said:]: Scotland as an independent nation would play an active and responsible role in the international community contributing on issues where it could, such as climate change.
telegraph 25-JAN-12
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[concluded:]: With independence we will have a new social union with the other nations of these islands. We will continue to share Her Majesty the Queen as head of state.
bbc 25-JAN-12
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[-said]: If a 16-year-old in Scotland can register to join the army, get married and pay taxes, surely he or she should be able to have a say in this country's constitutional future?
scmp 25-JAN-12
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[-told]: Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?
scmp 25-JAN-12
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[-told]: command wide support in Scotland,
scmp 25-JAN-12
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[said that:]: if there is an alternative of maximum devolution which would command wide support in Scotland, then it is only fair and democratic that option should be among the choices open to the people of Scotland
news_com_au 25-JAN-12
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[-said]: It would increase the opportunity for economic flexibility,
bloomberg 24-JAN-12
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[said:]: The Council of Economic Advisers includes some of the world’s foremost economists, academics and business people – including two Nobel Prize winners.
egovmonitor 24-JAN-12
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[argues:]: An independent Scotland can be a beacon for progressive opinion south of the border and further afield, addressing policy challenges in ways that reflect the universal values of fairness and are capable of being considered, adapted and implemented according to the circumstances and wishes within the other jurisdictions of these islands and beyond.
guardian 24-JAN-12
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[-said that]: And it is why anyone who accepted the union partly because of the compassionate values and inclusive vision of the postwar welfare state, may now be less keen on being part of a union whose government is in many respects eroding those values and destroying that vision.
guardian 24-JAN-12
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[said:]: The future of Scotland is for Scotland alone to determine. England does not have any veto in the debate on independence.
dailymail 24-JAN-12
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[added:]: It is why policies which exacerbate inequality and remove basic safety nets are always likely to encounter fierce opposition in Scotland.
guardian 24-JAN-12
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[said:]: I'd meet him as soon as possible. I've asked to meet him six times over the last six months. And he's now just agreed to have the meeting.
bbc 23-JAN-12
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[said:]: For 20 years, the Scottish National Party had a commitment that we would retain defence establishments we inherited at the point of independence. We do that because it gives continuity to local communities.
express 21-JAN-12
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[said:]: On coming to office in 2007, SNP Ministers decided to have no role in honours nominations. Therefore, by definition, Scottish Ministers have no involvement in the Forfeiture Committee process.
heraldscotland 20-JAN-12
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[said:]: The configuration of the army in Scotland, the mobile brigade, which is the outcome of the defence review, looks exactly like the configuration you'd want for a Scottish defence force – so that's one naval base, one aircraft base and a mobile armed brigade.
guardian 20-JAN-12
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[said:]: The signing of this agreement with Masdar is a rapid and valuable outcome from the high-level discussions I held with Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed al Nahyan and Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber just over two months ago in Abu Dhabi. This outcome is testament to the fact that Scotland is a world renewable energy champion and is continuing to play a major role in driving the global adoption of renewable sources of power, innovations in grid technology and R&D in wind turbine development.
egovmonitor 18-JAN-12
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[said:]: We look forward to these meetings being arranged soon, and we will have them in any order the UK Government wish. The First Minister is of course very happy to meet with the Scottish Secretary, as he always is.
express 16-JAN-12
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[said:]: We believe it is to everyone's benefit that these meetings are informed by the published consultation documents of both the UK and Scottish governments, so that Mr Moore, Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg can see what our proposals are - and we look forward to the meetings taking place.
icWales 15-JAN-12
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[added:]: Scotland has given away £250billion of oil revenues to Westminster and been given unwanted Trident nuclear weapons in return.
express 15-JAN-12
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[added:]: What I have said to the Deputy Prime Minister, which I think is similar to what the Prime Minister said in the House of Commons, is that, once we have published the Scottish Government’s consultation document, I am very happy to meet the Prime Minister or the Deputy Prime Minister in Edinburgh, in London, or wherever, to talk through these things in a positive way.
express 14-JAN-12
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[said:]: We have a mandate to hold a referendum on the constitution and it is important that we can take forward these plans so that the people of Scotland can determine their future.
egovmonitor 14-JAN-12
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[said:]: This visit to the World Energy Summit is an excellent opportunity to promote Scotland's role as a leader in renewable energy and tackling climate change.
bbc 14-JAN-12
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[said:]: What we're talking about here is the argument Scotland will stand on its own two feet, with its own resources. What could be fairer than that?
thesun 13-JAN-12
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[said:]: On the subject of Scotland's constitutional future, the UK Government made proposals last Tuesday, the Scottish Government will be launching our consultation document a week on Wednesday - a consultation document with the whole community of Scotland.
icWales 13-JAN-12
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[said:]: On the subject of Scotland’s constitutional future, the UK Government made proposals last Tuesday, the Scottish Government will be launching our consultation document a week on Wednesday - a consultation document with the whole community of Scotland.
irishtimes 13-JAN-12
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[said:]: Before Christmas, I called for a UK jobs summit led by the finance ministers of the four UK administrations to agree a programme of immediate employment creation. However, this call has not been acted upon.
belfasttelegraph 13-JAN-12
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[-said]: I am anxious… to get to the nub of the argument, to let the Scottish people decide their own future,
guardian 12-JAN-12
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[said:]: This is a huge decision, the most important for 300 years. And after a careful analysis we recognise that the first date that allows to conduct it properly, with all preparations properly made, with all the questions answered for the people of Scotland is the autumn of 2014.
euronews 12-JAN-12
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[said:]: The date for the referendum has to be the autumn of 2014. That's because this is the biggest decision that Scotland has made for 300 years. If you are going to do things properly and have the debate in the way it must be had then that is the date that we are going to move towards.
egovmonitor 12-JAN-12
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[said:]: Keep sterling until such time as the people of Scotland have said otherwise.
guardian 12-JAN-12
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[saying:]: I absolutely make no apology for saying that the Liberals, the Labour Party and the Conservatives are anti-Scottish in coming together to defy the will of the Scottish people to hold the referendum at a time of our choosing.
icWales 12-JAN-12
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[said:]: Let me warn the Labour Party, if they go in with the Tories they'll suck you in and they'll spit you out as they've done to the Liberal Democrats.
mailonsunday 12-JAN-12
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[added:]: Let me warn the Labour Party, if they go in with the Tories, they'll suck you in and they'll spit you out as they've done to the Liberal Democrats.
bbc 12-JAN-12
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[-said]: This has to be a referendum which is built in Scotland, which is made in Scotland and goes through the Scottish parliament,
upi 11-JAN-12
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[-has said]: the idea that London knows best and it is operating in our best interests but wanting to set the ground rules for our referendum despite the fact it has got no mandate whatsoever for doing so.
news 11-JAN-12
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[-insisted]: It was not the language they were using, the language of respect, when the SNP won a huge majority in last year's election.
guardian 11-JAN-12
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[responded:]: The mandate the SNP has to hold this referendum is unanswerable. That is the political reality.
telegraph 11-JAN-12
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[-told]: It must be a referendum built in Scotland and decided by the Scottish people,
japantoday 11-JAN-12
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[-said]: The objection, of course, is that the Prime Minister has started to put all sorts of London-based strings on.
cyprus 11-JAN-12
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[saying today:]: If you're having a vote on Scotland's future, 16 and 17-year-olds on the electoral roll have a stake in the future of the country.
cyprus 11-JAN-12
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[said:]: Yes, we believe so.
belfasttelegraph 11-JAN-12
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[said:]: The geographical share of North Sea oil – that in the Scottish continental shelf – would accrue to Scotland. What is in the English continental shelf would accrue to England. With a proper share of our resources Scotland would be the sixth most prosperous country in the developed world. About 90% of the revenue bearing oil and gas fields are in Scottish waters.
guardian 11-JAN-12
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[-said]: This has to be a referendum which is built in Scotland, which is made in Scotland and goes through the Scottish Parliament,
upi 11-JAN-12
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[saying today:]: If you’re having a vote on Scotland’s future, 16 and 17-year-olds on the electoral roll have a stake in the future of the country.
irishtimes 11-JAN-12
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[said:]: The issue is the entirely unacceptable Tory attempt to impose London strings on Scotland's referendum, from a Westminster government with absolutely no mandate for these matters. In stark contrast to Westminster's disarray, the Scottish government will continue with the orderly process of bringing forward the referendum in the second half of this Parliament.
guardian 10-JAN-12
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[said:]: The more the UK Government interferes, the stronger support for independence will become.
themirror 10-JAN-12
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[-told]: The date we should have this referendum should be the autumn of 2014,
channelnewsasia 10-JAN-12
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[-said]: If you are going to do things properly, allow the proper process to take place ... then that is the date we are going to move towards,
news 10-JAN-12
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[-said]: This is a huge decision for Scotland. This is potentially the biggest decision we have made as a nation for 300 years,
news 10-JAN-12
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Darling [said:]: The idea that this would be smoothly negotiated with all the good bits going to Scotland and all the bad bits going to England, that's absolute nonsense and Alex Salmond knows it.
bbc 24-JAN-12
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Darling [ said]: Nothing would please Alex Salmond more than if he could run the entire campaign as Scotland against the Conservatives because that is a football match that I could tell you the result of now,
guardian 14-JAN-12
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Osborne [replied:]: Alex Salmond has said Scotland should join the euro - that means giving up the pound, joining the euro. That is not the currency I'd be wanting to join at a time like this.
express 13-JAN-12
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Darling [said:]: The whole of the UK would be diminished if any one party left. I also think that as someone who is Scottish, it is not in my country's interest to cut itself adrift. I think it is important for the greater good of the country that we don't fall into the trap of this being a contest of Alex Salmond against London.
independent 12-JAN-12
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Osborne [replied:]: Alex Salmond has said Scotland should join the euro - that means giving up the pound, joining the euro.
icWales 12-JAN-12
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Darling [ said]: The sooner we get on to big questions, like for example what currency we will have – and Alex Salmond after all these years in politics still can't tell us that – would we be going into the euro with all the strictures they are now visiting on members, how much debt are we going to have, how do we see Scotland's future? These are the big arguments that we need to engage in,
guardian 11-JAN-12
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Cameron [-told]: If [SNP leader] Alex Salmond wants a referendum on independence, why do we wait until 2014?
thetimes 10-JAN-12
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Cameron [said:]: If Alex Salmond wants a referendum, why wait? This is damaging for Scotland, all the time business are asking will Scotland stay a part of UK?
telegraph 10-JAN-12
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Cameron [said:]: If Alex Salmond wants a referendum, why do we wait until 2014? This is very damaging for Scotland because businesses are asking, ‘Is Scotland going to stay part of the UK? Should I invest?’
themirror 10-JAN-12
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Cameron [-told]: If (SNP leader) Alex Salmond wants a referendum on independence, why do we wait until 2014?
jrep 09-JAN-12
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Cameron [said:]: If Alex Salmond wants a referendum on independence, why do we wait until 2014?
guardian 09-JAN-12
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David McLetchie [said:]: Alex Salmond and the SNP can’t simply brush aside the serious and penetrating questions Mr McMillan has asked.
express 25-NOV-11
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Osborne [said:]: The instability and the uncertainty that hangs over the Scottish economy [is] because of [First Minister] Alex Salmond raising the prospects of independence without actually providing any detail of when he wants to have his referendum or what the question will be.
bbc 13-NOV-11
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Annabel Goldie [said:]: What will nurses, teachers and other hard pressed public sector workers make of Alex Salmond’s appointment of an independence guru on a fancy salary paid for out of the public purse?
heraldscotland 28-SEP-11
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Goldie [added:]: First Minister Alex Salmond wants to be popular all of the time instead of planning for the long-term future by taking realistic decisions at the current time.
bbc 21-SEP-11
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Baker [added:]: Instead of focussing so much on what they can't do, Alex Salmond, John Swinney and the SNP should concentrate on what they can do to boost the Scottish economy with the £30bn budget at their disposal.
bbc 12-SEP-11
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David McLetchie [said:]: CBI Scotland is right: we can ill-afford years of uncertainty just to fit in with Alex Salmond’s politicking. We want a Scotland optimistic about its future.
express 02-SEP-11
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Richard Baker [added:]: The SNP are all over the place on tax policy. Last week Alex Salmond and John Swinney were arguing in favour of cutting taxes for businesses and now John Mason is advocating a tax increase. The SNP do not have a clear economic strategy.
heraldscotland 21-AUG-11
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Jim Sheridan [said:]: On Saturday I referred Alex Salmond for investigation under the ministerial code because of his deception over the Brian Souter cash for honours affair.
heraldscotland 16-AUG-11
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Paul Martin [said:]: Throughout the entire phone hacking scandal Alex Salmond has ditched his usual megaphone diplomacy and has been uncharacteristically silent.
bbc 17-JUL-11
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Paul Martin [said:]: Throughout the phone-hacking scandal Alex Salmond … has been uncharacteristically silent. He would clearly rather we all ignored the fact he met James Murdoch, wined and dined the editor of the Scottish News of the World and provided free articles and advertising to News International papers worth thousands of pounds.
heraldscotland 17-JUL-11
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James Kelly [said:]: Alex Salmond is putting money ahead of public safety. People will be appalled at this.
express 27-JUN-11
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Annabel Goldie [added:]: Alex Salmond has ignored the key issues and chosen to be subsumed by rhetorical bile.
bbc 15-JUN-11
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Cameron [-has said that]: The ball is now in Alex Salmond’s court. He has to chose between five years of constitutional uncertainty, or take a brave pill and get on with the referendum.
heraldscotland 08-MAY-11
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Cameron [-said]: I passionately believe in our United Kingdom, and of course I congratulate Alex Salmond on his emphatic win. But I will do everything obviously as British prime minister to work with the first minister of Scotland as I will always do to treat the Scottish people and the Scottish government with the respect they deserve,
guardian 06-MAY-11
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Cameron [-said]: I passionately believe in our United Kingdom, and of course I congratulate Alex Salmond on his emphatic win,
guardian 06-MAY-11
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Cameron [said:]: I passionately believe in our United Kingdom, and of course I congratulate Alex Salmond on his emphatic win.
telegraph 06-MAY-11
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Nicola Sturgeon [said:]: This is an excellent poll – it indicates that people want to re-elect the SNP Government and Alex Salmond for First Minister.
express 04-MAY-11
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Sean Connery [said:]: If you want Alex Salmond to be First Minister you have to vote for the SNP on both ballot papers.
express 24-APR-11
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Cameron [said:]: In my first week as Prime Minister, I came up to Scotland and met Alex Salmond, and have met him many more times since. Yes, we disagree on some big issues but where we can work better together we should.
express 21-APR-11
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Andy Kerr [said:]: We already know that Alex Salmond's plans for a local income tax will cost hard-working families well over £500 per year, but the extraordinary lengths the SNP are going to conceal the true cost of his tax hike suggests it is even more than previously thought.
TheScotsman 02-APR-11
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Goldie [-told]: the former racing tipster Salmond against the Gray
bbc 19-MAR-11
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Goldie [asked:]: And what about Alex Salmond?
bbc 19-MAR-11
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Paul Martin [said:]: I can’t recall a Government minister being found guilty of breaching the Code of Conduct like this before. This isn’t a simple mistake … this is about an abuse of trust. Alex Salmond needs to take action.
heraldscotland 10-MAR-11
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Straw [said yesterday:]: The telephone records show that the suggestion that we make concessions came from Mr Salmond and his colleagues, not from us.
heraldscotland 14-FEB-11
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Richard Baker [said:]: The documents that need to be released are the medical evidence that Mr Salmond relied on before he released Megrahi some 18 months ago and the minutes of the meeting between himself and Jack Straw where the First Minister reportedly asked for a deal on the prisoner transfer agreement.
heraldscotland 12-FEB-11
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