THE independent group commissioned by the pro-Union parties to devise a fair question for the independence referendum revealed a short and sweet form of words yesterday which they said went back to basics as "clear, understandable, decisive, unbiased and fair."
Headed by Lord Sutherland, the former principal of Edinburgh University and architect of Scotland's policy of free personal care for the elderly, the group came up with one of the shortest constitutional questions posed in a referendum.
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