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Time for a West Lothian solution

THE First Minister has said it many times this week and he said it again yesterday in his usual bullish terms: the question of a referendum on independence is one for Scots and Scots alone.

However, there is another question – one first posed 25 years ago – that could yet have a profound effect on the independence argument and in particular whether the so-called devo-max option ends up on the ballot paper.

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