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Ministers were worried that the UK’s international reputation would be damaged if Scotland left the UK and took all the oil with it LABOUR ministers drew up secret plans to hive off Shetland – and possibly Orkney – from an independent Scotland as well as to change maritime borders in order to bring North Sea oil into “English waters” as part of a covert campaign to scupper independence, it has emerged. Newly released documents from the late 1970s reveal the government led by Jim Callaghan (below) created a clandestine “publicity and propaganda” unit to counter the SNP. They show there was deep concern over the potential break-up of the Union and the loss of the oil revenue that was propping up the UK’s stagnating economy.

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