Was it Philip Hammond who told the Guardian that Britain would discuss a currency union with an independent Scotland? Fleet Street is asking that question after the Defence Secretary said:
‘There will be nothing non-negotiable; everything will be on the table… You can’t go into any negotiation with things that are non-negotiable. You can go with things you intend to make your principal objectives in a negotiation and, when you have issues about which you are not prepared to be flexible, invariably you have to give way on other things in order to achieve your objectives.’
Downing Street has said that the Defence Secretary was speaking as the Defence Secretary; but, even so, Hammond is still at odds with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, who told Herald Scotland that there is ‘no deal to be done’ over Trident.
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