FM Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland would continue to use the pound sterling while the Scottish pound is introduced in a "careful and responsible phased approach". An independent Scotland would keep ...

Ten years on, the currency question remains largely unresolved. While the Scottish Government’s 2022 paper finally acknowledged the need for a Scottish pound “as soon as pract ...

ALEX Salmond has claimed the arguments for a Scottish currency are “much stronger” than a decade ago when he pledged to keep ...

our currency would remain the pound sterling". Sarah Smith: Money talks when it comes to indyref2 Douglas Fraser: Rebooting Scottish independence Are we on course for indyref2? Mr Wilson told BBC ...

Scotland would continue to import monetary ... they decided that the new Irish pound would stay pegged to the pound sterling at a rate of 1 to 1 - so that in monetary terms, Ireland never left ...

Scots are overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the pound in the event of independence, with Labour voters the most keen to remain in a sterling zone, research has found. According to a YouGov poll ...

“continuing to use sterling at the point of application”. It would then begin the process of establishing a new currency of its own – known as the “Scottish pound” – before potentially ...

The official currency of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland is the pound sterling (£), often abbreviated to GBP.

Scottish Widows is calling on the new Labour government to take forward a raft of changes to auto enrolment schemes. Close up of United Kingdom Pound Sterling bank notes. It said the adjustments ...

The pound has risen sharply and the FTSE 100 Index is expected to follow suit in a relief rally for markets after Scotland's rejection of independence. Sterling climbed by almost 1% overnight to ...

On the currency markets, which remain open 24 hours a day, the pound enjoyed its best gains in a decade ... to the election but we think there is more room to the upside for Sterling.” Business groups ...

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