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Ukip warns Scots: 'don't expect British cash'

THE leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) has warned Alex Salmond he would be "naive in the extreme" to assume the rest of the UK would simply wave through a generous exit package for Scotland in the event of a Yes vote in 2014.

Nigel Farage MEP, whose fiery Euroscepticism has helped his party overtake the Liberal Democrats in recent polls, said the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland would not want to hand over a "fat cheque" if Scotland chose to quit the UK.

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