Labour leader Iain Gray ridiculed Alex Salmond’s past claims about the arc of prosperity and claimed that in an independent Scotland our two biggest banks would have gone and the economy would have collapsed.
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The Celtic Tiger is in danger of becoming extinct
There were angry exchanges at Holyrood yesterday over the implications for Scotland of the meltdown in the Irish economy, as another massive banking bail-out in Dublin brought a fresh wave of austerity measures.
