ALEX Salmond will today be accused by Labour of backing away from the SNP's core policy of Scottish independence and of failing to do "the slightest bit of homework" on what it would mean for ordinary Scots.
Margaret Curran, the Shadow Scottish Secretary, said she had learned through ministerial written answers that the Scottish Government has not had a single conversation on the consequences of independence with any Whitehall department.
In a speech today to a conference in London on independence, she will accuse the SNP of giving the impression they are losing heart on their key policy and looking to having a second devo-max question on the referendum ballot paper simply to "save Alex Salmond's face".
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