Scotland can be the “engine room of UK growth”

The Secretary of State for Scotland, the Rt Hon Ian Murray, told an audience at the University of Edinburgh’s Informatics Forum on Friday morning that Scotland can be “the engine room of UK growth”.

But, he also repeated his recent claim that the Scottish economy could have been £10 billion larger if economic growth during the last ten years had matched that in the rest of the UK – and said the barrier to that had been political posturing between the two governments in Scotland.