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Lord Michael Forsyth questioned how Scotland would have fared in the Covid crisis if the SNP had won the independence debate. In a blistering attack on independence, the Conservative peer said that he can give 20 billion reasons why we are lucky to be a part of the United Kingdom as he cited the £20bn sent from the UK Treasury to deal with Covid. He attacked Scottish Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman, who also appeared on BBC Question Time, for spreading fantasy politics and fantasy economics .