Sir Keir Starmer could be a new version of Margaret Thatcher, says John Swinney

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Scottish First Minister John Swinney speech at an independence campaign event.Mr Swinney said independence could be Scotland’s fresh start as he warned that Sir Keir Starmer could be a new version of Margaret Thatcher.

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00:00That's why, when I met the Prime Minister on Friday, I made clear the existential nature

00:12of the current threat that we face. I left the Prime Minister in no doubt that unless

00:18he changes course, what we face is a second wave of 80s-style deindustrialisation, 80s-style

00:26economic devastation. Today, Sir Keir Starmer is an even less popular Prime Minister than

00:33Liz Truss, and that takes some doing. But if he does not change course on the energy profits

00:40levy, he will enter our national story as a second Thatcher, a second destroyer of industry,

00:47a second destroyer of communities, and Scotland will not forget.

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