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I ENJOYED the TV debate. Not while taking part in it though. That’s like sitting an exam, doing a job interview and having an argument in the pub all at one time.

I enjoyed watching it back online because this was the first debate in years where the differences between the parties were painted in big, bold primary colours of how to change people’s lives rather than whether to change Scotland’s constitution.

Labour and the SNP are having a real debate over whether to use our powers to take different decisions from the Tories, to invest in our schools and grow our economy.

It felt like the Tories, who want to go over the referendum arguments of the past, had little to say about the future.

Labour have ruled out another referendum. Nicola Sturgeon is smart enough to know the economic case for independence has collapsed.

She now talks about rebuilding her arguments, rather than another referendum. So the only thing that can drag us back to the arguments of the past is the Tory infighting over Europe.

The EU referendum is now Sturgeon’s only hope for another referendum.

The European debate has become almost entirely about who becomes the next leader of the Tory party.

It is an argument between old classmates from Eton, with what’s best for Scotland and the UK far from Tory minds. I think most people in Scotland are like me. They want Scotland to be in both unions – European and British. If the Tory infighting leads to Brexit it hands the nationalists the argument they’ve been waiting for.

My judgment is that all the arguments for staying in the EU, on jobs and prosperity, are the same arguments for staying in the UK.

Nearly £12billion of Scottish trade depends on the EU but nearly £50billion depends on the UK.

So I’d still vote to stay in the UK even if it would break my heart to leave the EU. So when Ruth Davidson’s Tories knock on your door and pose as the saviours of the Union, ask her why her party’s civil war is risking our place in both the unions that matter to Scotland.

I want to stay in the UK. That’s why I’m voting Labour in May. I want to stay in the EU, that’s why I’m voting for Remain in June.

I don’t want to have to choose.