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Humza Yousaf’s pound shop populism isn’t cutting through 

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Have you opened a letter recently from your energy supplier and gasped at how much of your monthly budget is now going on electricity and gas? Are you living in constant pain or discomfort because you need an operation, but under the Scottish NHS you’ll have to wait years for treatment? Or do you live on one of Scotland’s islands and have been forced, for the first time in your life, to take to the streets in protest at the Scottish government’s failure to provide lifeline ferry services for your community?

If Scotland ever does cut away from the UK, the split is many years away. This makes it all the more frustrating that the Scottish government is spending millions of pounds on civil servants tasked with creating fantasy papers.

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions then fret no more. Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has a new white paper out called ‘Creating a Modern Constitution for an Independent Scotland’. It

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