Hugo Young Lecture from Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond

[MichaelMcGuire]

First Minister Alex Salmond has told an audience in London that independence for Scotland would create a new 'social union' between the two countries of Scotland and England post-independence -- and be good for both countries. Delivering the Guardian newspaper's annual Hugo Young Lecture the evening before he publishes the Scottish Government's consultation on an independence referendum, the FM said that independence would leave Scotland and the rest of the UK free to work together as equal partners in many areas where values and interests were shared.

8th Jan 2012.