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SNP to adopt controversial blueprint for separation as official policy
Depute leader Keith Brown at the SNP autumn conference in October 2018
SCOTLAND’S ruling nationalists are set to adopt the controversial Growth Commission report as official policy, senior party figures confirmed today.
The blueprint for separation, published last year, set out a vision for economic independence – including disciplined public spending and a new Scottish central bank.
But it was criticised by leading figures on both sides of the independence debate for being too economically conservative.
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