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It is worth pointing out that the health service needs real-term spending growth every year to cope with an increasing and ageing population alongside rising bills for medicines and new treatments.

The UK currently has nine nuclear reactors in operation, but the plants are ageing and eight of them are due to close by the end of this decade.

"We are seeing low fertility, population ageing, population stagnation used as an excuse to implement nationalist, anti-migrant policies and gender conservative policies," he says.

But this referendum is aimed at those who have travelled legally for work to a country with a rapidly shrinking and ageing population.

That would break the traditional consensus that Scotland needs more immigration to fill job vacancies and offset the effects of an ageing population.