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The Economics of Scottish Independence: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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1 Of the 59 Scottish MPs in the UK Parliament, 41 are members of the Scottish Labour Party against a single Conservative, while 11 are Liberal Democrats, and 6 belong to the Scottish National Party. This would imply a loss of about 15 per cent of Labour's 257 MPs in the current parliament, while the Liberal Democrats would lose 19 per cent of their 57 sitting MPs.

2 The dependency ratio is the ratio between pensioners and the working population.