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Mairi McAllan has denied the SNP's relentless drive to end the Union amounts to taking "a punt" on Scotland's future. ‌

The Housing Secretary, a key ally of John Swinney, insisted today the pursuit of independence will "never, ever be off the table" for her party. ‌

The First Minister has argued repeatedly he will have a mandate to hold a second referendum if his party wins a majority of MSPs at next May's Holyrood election. ‌

Asked if she was asking the country to gamble on independence and the situation potentially worsening, McAllan said: "We don’t believe it to be a punt. We have just, in the last couple of weeks, published a very detailed, quite dispassionate, economic prospectus for independence.

“One of the main things that we’ve done in that work is

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