Should they gain independence for Scotland, Salmond said last September he would open her borders and welcome economic migrants and asylum seekers equally, awarding them with a green card and the setting up of a £1bn Scottish foreign office.

But their highest profile contribution to foreign diplomacy appears to have been a partial souring of the US-Scots relationship after they secured the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdulbasset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds that he only had three months to live.

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