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'Devo-max' proposals not enough, argues Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon laid into her rivals in a pre-emptive strike against Scottish Labour's devolution commission

Rumoured Scottish Labour plans to promise "devo-max" in lieu of independence are "at
best inadequate," Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon claimed yesterday.

She laid into her rivals in a pre-emptive strike against Scottish Labour's devolution commission, which is expected to make headlines with several de facto campaign pledges at the party's annual conference in Perth this month.

Scots go to the polls in September to decide if Scotland should leave Britain, with the subject hotly debated on the Scottish left.

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