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Coronavirus throws up major questions for the future of Scotland
Businesses will struggle, the economy will contract and a great many people will slip into poverty. So we urgently need to develop a new post-Brexit, post-Covid settlement, writes RICHARD LEONARD

THE coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore a number of burning issues that have long been conveniently ignored by our political Establishment. 

Politicians who once praised the impact of zero-hours contracts have had to acknowledge the pitfalls of precarious work. 

So have those who waxed lyrical about the potential for labour market “flexicurity” in an independent Scotland.

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