EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister's recent set-piece events tackled a range of big issues - but independence wasn't one of them.
John Swinney has been accused of having "no plan" to achieve Scottish independence after the subject was absent from a recent series of high-profile speeches by the First Minister.
But none of the four events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling contained the word independence or featured a discussion on why ending the Union could help. Swinney has won plaudits for uniting the SNP and halting Labour's advance in the polls following a brutal 18-month period for the Nationalists. A series of papers looking at the prospective benefits of independence was then quietly dropped last year amid waning public interest.
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