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U.K. party leaders promise Scotland new powers
     2014-September-18  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    THE three main U.K. party leaders gave a joint promise Tuesday that Scotland will get extra powers if it opts to stay part of the United Kingdom in a landmark vote in two days’ time.

    In a speech Monday in Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron made an emotional plea for Scotland not to “end the United Kingdom as we know it.”

    Cameron said he spoke for millions of people across the United Kingdom who would be “heartbroken” to see Scotland leave, and he warned that it would be a “painful divorce.”

    Opinion polls have put the pro-independence and pro-union camps neck-and-neck in the runup to today’s referendum.

    With the survival of the 300-year-old union of England, Scotland and Wales as Great Britain on a knife-edge, Cameron of the Conservatives, coalition partner Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats and Labour leader Ed Miliband have joined forces to beg Scotland to stay.

    In a pledge published on the front page of Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, the three leaders say that if Scotland’s voters reject independence, work to devolve “extensive new powers” from the central government in Westminster will start Friday.

    The issue of spending on social welfare and health care, through the National Health Service (NHS), has been central to the pro-independence campaign. Questions over the economy and taxation have also been key.

    In their promise, the leaders say “we can state categorically that the final say on how much is spent on the NHS will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.”(SD-Agencies)

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