ECONOMIC policy in Scotland has hardly changed in 25 years of devolution, according to a new expert paper today.

Looking at post-devolution economic policy, the paper’s authors — Glasgow University economics professor and Scottish Fiscal Commission chairman, Graeme Roy, Glasgow University lecturer David Waite, and Strathclyde University’s Andrew Goudie — found a “remarkable degree of similarity” in approach in economic policy since 1999.

They argued: “Scotland remains in the bottom OECD quartile for international exports as a share of GDP.”