I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.