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Top Lib Dem rules out currency union
Treasury chief Danny Alexander backs Tory and Labour lines
Westminster's word is "final" and there will be no currency union for an independent Scotland, leading Scottish Lib Dem Danny Alexander said yesterday.
The Chief Treasury Secretary ruled out a deal to share the sterling before a bevy of pension fund managers in Edinburgh.
But economists have suggested the matter could already be out of Westminster's hands.
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