Douglas Alexander: “Devolution has done a great deal, but power was never supposed to stop at the doors of the Scottish Parliament.”

We are saying the time has come to think broadly about what should be our options.

Our predecessors, the Conservatives, made such a mess of the process of approval, both for Jackdaw and Rosebank, that they ended up in court.

I’m careful in what I say publicly because we don’t want to make the same mistakes as our Conservative predecessors, which led to the whole programme being delayed as a consequence of judicial challenge.

Bringing the world's finance ministers to Edinburgh recognises our capital's reputation as a global financial centre.