The road to the bawbee currency options for an independent Scotland - transcript
00:00 Good evening, everybody. It is a great pleasure to warmly welcome 00:05 you to the RSE tonight on such a chilly evening as well. It's a 00:13 pleasure to have our guest speaker with us here tonight. 00:16 But before I introduce him to you, let me just say it's such a 00:20 pleasure to have everybody here in person tonight. So John was 00:24 saying earlier to me that it's the first time you have been in 00:27 Edinburgh for quite a long time, almost two years. I think it 00:33 feels to me like it's the first time I've been out of my house, 00:37 probably in a roundabout at the same time. My name is Professor 00:41 Nicola McEwen. I'm a professor of territorial politics or with 00:45 a great interest in this topic here tonight as a representative 00:50 of the RSE. Delighted to introduce our guest speaker this 00:56 evening, Professor Sir John Kay, also a fellow of the RSE, and 01:02 one of Britain's leading economists. His work is centred 01:07 on the re