John Swinney: “It must be decided by the people of Scotland.”

Scotland is no city. We are no region. We are a nation. And soon we will be an independent nation.

We do not build the future on nostalgia, for what has gone before. We build the future on the dreams of those who come next.

And make no mistake – the wind is now firmly in the sails of Scotland's independence movement.

We will be inviting people in Scotland to choose a better future, where we make our own decisions; to choose using our energy wealth to bring down bills; to choose re-joining the EU in our own right; to choose a future where our pensioners…