order back issues and use the historic Daily Express We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. © Copyright 1997 - 2020 NewsNow Publishing Limited. She said at next year's Holyrood election she will "make the case for Scotland to become an independent country and seek a clear endorsement of Scotland's right to choose our own future". It will not help their cause that Holyrood is now sitting when the figures are published, and with the SNP pushing for another independence referendum it is hard to see how these new statistics will be anything other than the subject of heated debate. He said he hoped the Alliance for Independence (AFI) would “max the Yes” and win up to 24 seats on the regional list system for a decisive Nationalist majority in 2021. Please register or log in to comment on this article. That is the sum – £8,000 for a family of four in each year – that Scotland stands to lose in the event of separation from the rest of the UK. 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