{"id":741,"date":"2016-10-31T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=741"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:42:39","slug":"support-for-single-market-first-minister-urges-all-scotland-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/support-for-single-market-first-minister-urges-all-scotland-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for single market &#8211; First Minister urges all-Scotland coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ARTICLE SOURCE: <\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.scotland.gov.uk\/news\/strong-support-for-single-market\" target=\"_blank\"> &gt;&gt; news.scotland.gov.uk\/news\/strong-support-for-single-market<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong> RELATED LINKS:<br \/>\nSCOT GOV WEBSITE <\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> &gt;&gt; www.scotland.gov.uk<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong> SNP WEBSITE: <\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snp.org\" target=\"_blank\"> &gt;&gt; www.snp.org<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>FM NICOLA STURGEON \u201cWe will work constructively with all relevant parties to achieve the goal of retaining our place in Europe and Single Market membership.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>26\/10\/16 &#8211; First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will today say the Scottish Government will work constructively to build an all-Scotland coalition to protect the country\u2019s place in the European Single Market.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The First Minister will open the annual National Economic Forum in Edinburgh later today (Wednesday, 26 October), which will discuss the impact of Brexit on Scottish businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will set out to 150 business and public sector leaders the Scottish Government\u2019s next steps to protect the economy in the face of an impending UK exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The First Minister is expected to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCreating jobs, expanding the economy and growing tax revenues \u2013 these priorities are at the centre of everything we do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut economists have estimated a hard Brexit will cost Scotland 80,000 jobs within a decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI believe a coalition can be built to keep the UK as a whole in the Single Market. That outcome is in the best interests of everyone in these islands. So we will work with other organisations and parties, not just in Scotland but across the UK, to achieve that outcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd in Scotland, regardless of the positions people take on the constitutional future of Scotland, on this central issue of Single Market membership there is widespread agreement. Rarely has there been such unity on an issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo today let\u2019s resolve to present to the UK Government a unified Scottish position: an all-Scotland coalition of support for the Single Market. An all-Scotland coalition \u2013 of politicians, business, universities and others \u2013 to resist a hard Brexit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE SOURCE: &gt;&gt; news.scotland.gov.uk\/news\/strong-support-for-single-market RELATED LINKS: SCOT GOV WEBSITE &gt;&gt; www.scotland.gov.uk SNP WEBSITE: &gt;&gt; www.snp.org FM NICOLA STURGEON \u201cWe will work constructively with all relevant parties to achieve the goal of retaining our place in Europe and Single Market membership.\u201d 26\/10\/16 &#8211; First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will today say the Scottish Government will work constructively to build an all-Scotland coalition to protect the country\u2019s place in the European Single Market. 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