Callum McCaig, member for Aberdeen South, said: “The UK has one of the worst performing currencies in the world, it has a trade deficit of £133 billion, and a national debt approaching £1.7 trillion.
“Can I ask the Prime Minister, does she really believe the UK can afford to be an independent country?”
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Hide AdMr McCaig’s question was based on one of the oft-repeated arguments against Scottish independence - that the country can not afford to be independent.
After a brief interruption, during which Speaker John Bercow appealed for calm so the Prime Minister could respond, Mrs May replied: “If he wants to talk about figures in relation to the UK economy, the UK economy is the world’s sixth-largest economy, this government has reduced the deficit by two-thirds and if he’d cared to look at the employment figures we see today - employment at a record high, and unemployment which hasn’t been lower since 1975.”
