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Indyplus video: Salmond reaches out to the independence generation

 

Sunday 20 October 2013 14:05 BST
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In a competent rather than barnstorming leader’s speech to the SNP’s conference in Perth, 337 days before the referendum date next year, the First Minister repeatedly emphasised Holyrood’s progressive credentials, and said an independent Scotland would renationalise the Royal Mail, scrap the bedroom tax and set up a Fair Work Commission to ensure the minimum wage kept pace with inflation and the cost of living.

Watch excerpts from his speech below:

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