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Why is Scottish economy growing slower than UK?

Scotland's GDP performance is stronger and its unemployment lower than UK-wide figures, the first minister has said.

Nicola Sturgeon said there was "much to be positive about" when Andrew Neil asked why the UK economy was growing 2% but the Scottish figure was less than 0.5%.

She said Scotland was "not immune" to the Brexit effect and the Scottish figures were affected by the oil and gas markets.

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