Outlander star Sam Heughan has thrown his weight behind indyref2.

The Balmacellan born thesp declared his support for the vote in a scathing tweet about an article in this week’s Economist.

Writing about Scottish independence, the magazine says “going it alone would be a serious gamble”, and illustrates this using a picture of a Scot, with blue face paint wearing a “see you Jimmy” hat.

Heughan responded: “Maybe a gamble is needed to move forward for the country? Finally, escape age-old stereotyping and cliche, as portrayed in similar photos?”

The actor, who plays the character of Jacobite Jamie Fraser in the hit American show about a time-travelling nurse, was a keen Yes campaigner in 2014, and regularly posted support for independence.

In the article, the magazine says Britain is heading towards “Scoxit.”.

“For a country of 5m people that depends on two sputtering industries, to go it alone would be a gamble. Yet Scots may conclude that remaining in the Brexit-bound union would be riskier still. They would be wrong. For although Mrs May’s willingness to leave the single market and customs union is likely to be bad for Britain, it also makes independence more complicated. If the EU were prepared to readmit it, Scotland would face a harder border with England. Nationalists say they could import whatever arrangement is made in Ireland, where a similar problem exists. But there may be no such neat solution. And rejoining the EU’s single market at the cost of leaving Britain’s would make no sense: Scotland exports four times as much to the rest of Britain as it does to the EU.”

Responding to the article, Mark Littlewood, the Director General of the IEA tweeted: “Give anyone freedom & independence & they MIGHT mess up. But usually they use it wisely. Why wldnt Scotland?!”