Scottish Business UK has written to Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery John Swinney MSP ahead of this month’s Scottish budget statement, urging the government to prioritise economic growth over the campaign for independence.

SBUK Chief Executive Struan Stevenson has labelled plans to spend £20 million on a referendum in the current economic climate as “unthinkable” and outlined a range of policies from the government’s own National Strategy for Economic Transformation that the money could be spent on to better effect.

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