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Chancellor Gordon Brown will warn that everyone in the United Kingdom would suffer economically and culturally if Scotland voted for independence. Chancellor Gordon Brown has warned that everyone in the United Kingdom would suffer economically and culturally if Scotland voted for independence.
Mr Brown will tell the Scottish Labour Party conference that the economic futures of Scotland and the rest of the UK are inextricably linked. Mr Brown told the Scottish Labour Party conference that the economic futures of Scotland and the rest of the UK are inextricably linked.
"Two-and-a-half million people in Scotland have a family in England," he wrote in the Daily Record newspaper. The chancellor said links UK links should be maintained for "solidarity" in the age of "interdependence".
He also pointed to other signs that England and Scotland are moving closer. Mr Brown also used his conference speech to attack Labour's opponents.
"Almost one in six Scots make their home south of the border and 400,000 people who live in Scotland are English-born." Earlier, writing in the Daily Record newspaper, he pointed to links between Scotland and the rest of the UK by saying: "Two-and-a-half million people in Scotland have a family in England."
In his conference speech, he will also claim that Britain is a model for how countries can co-operate together. He added: "Almost one in six Scots make their home south of the border and 400,000 people who live in Scotland are English-born."
In his conference speech, he claimed that Britain is a model for how countries can co-operate together.
Mr Brown said: "The 21st Century is going to be characterised by interdependence."
He added that those who "believe in solidarity across borders and across countries know that to sever links with countries when these links are so close is not only bad for economics, it is bad for the solidarity that should exist across borders and across countries in this world".
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The BBC's Political Correspondent Norman Smith says Mr Brown's comments come amid mounting fears within the government that the Scottish National Party could be victorious in next May's elections to the Scottish parliament. BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said Mr Brown's comments come amid mounting fears within the government that the Scottish National Party could be victorious in next May's elections to the Scottish parliament.
On Friday, Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Labour to defend Scotland from the "constitutional nightmare" of an SNP government.On Friday, Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Labour to defend Scotland from the "constitutional nightmare" of an SNP government.
Speaking at the conference, the chancellor said Labour had to "expose" what its opponents "are up to".
He said: "The Conservatives don't care about the union and about Britain. They are fighting a policy of English votes for English laws.
"The Liberals have a shopping list that doesn't add up at any point.
"And the Nationalists continue to practice a politics of grudge and grievance and we have got to expose it."