Topic: How Scotland should be governed

Attitudes in Scotland to options for governing Scotland including more devolution and independence

The Challenge Facing The New Scottish Labour Leader

12th August 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed Policy issues The Scottish independence referendum

Labour’s new Scottish leader is due to be unveiled on Saturday, an announcement that will in effect signal that the holiday season is coming to an end and normal political hostilities will soon begin once more. The announcement will, of course, be made against the backdrop of a divisive UK leadership contest in which the […]

Should Scotland Have a EU Referendum Veto?

24th March 2015 Comment How Scotland should be governed

Last Tuesday the Scottish Parliament held a debate on ‘Scotland’s Place in Europe’. Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Government’s Minister for Europe and International Development, reiterated a call made months earlier by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that any UK exit of the EU (increasingly referred to as ‘Brexit’) should be subject to vetoes by each of […]

Are Voters Up for Yet More Debate about Constitutional Change?

18th March 2015 Comment How Scotland should be governed

It has become a common assertion that, while people might have been very involved in the debate about the independence referendum, they probably do not want to continue talking further about questions of devolution and UK governance. In particular people outside Scotland surely must be fed up with the continued preoccupation with such questions? However, […]

YouGov Show The Votes Labour’s Lost

13th March 2015 Comment How Scotland should be governed

Rather remarkably the SNP have in recent days become one of the central talking points of the UK-wide general election campaign, thanks to Conservative attempts to push Labour into ruling out any kind of post-election deal with the SNP.  Doubtless the SNP themselves are lapping up the implicit acknowledgement from their opponents that they seem […]