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SCOTLAND would have to ditch the pound and sign up for the euro if it wants to split from the UK and join the EU, a top Eurocrat said today.

Jacqueline Minor, the European Commission’s UK representative, added an independent Scotland would have to wait in line for membership along with states such as Serbia.

She also poured cold water on claims Scotland would be able to carve out a special deal in Brexit negotiations.

Speaking in Edinburgh, she said: “The negotiations will be with the United Kingdom and that means essentially the Westminster Government.”

The Commission says Scotland would not be able to “inherit” the UK’s membership and would be in the same position as Balkan nations that have applied to join – including Serbia, Bosnia Herzogovina, and Montenegro.

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That'll deflate the Scottish wind bagpipe.

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Meanwhile in another blow to remainers risible project fear predictions:

BRITAIN has scored a post-Brexit vote hat-trick with builders, manufacturers and exporters all thriving.

The UK’s industrial sector grew at its fastest annual rate, 4.3 per cent, in nearly six years in December.

Construction also beat expectations to rise by 1.8 per cent month on month, up from just 0.4 per cent in November

A third boost came from the shrinking trade deficit as exports boomed, particularly to non-EU countries where there was a £1.1billion rise.

The three successes lifted the FTSE 250, a better indicator of the UK economy’s success than the FTSE 100 index, to its highest ever close. It ended the day up 0.47 per cent, or 87.77 at 18,715.36.

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