Perfectly reasonable position on currency

JOHN Robertson, MP, obviously doesn't do his research very well, as his letter (January 18) showed. Far from announcing on Newsnight on January 16 a "new" policy on the currency, Alex Salmond, MP, was simply restating what was in Section 5 of the SNP's Raising the Standard paper published in November 2005. It stated that in an independent Scotland: "The currency shall continue to be sterling until such times as parliament decides to change that position. Any move to adopt the euro will require the sanction of the people in a referendum." It tells us a lot about John Robertson's level of industriousness that he didn't know this.