Nicola Sturgeon’s Brexit Dilemma

5th October 2018 Comment How Scotland should be governed Policy issues

Doubtless the question that delegates gathering at the SNP conference in Glasgow this weekend will have uppermost in their minds is whether Nicola Sturgeon will fire the starting gun for a second independence referendum. When in June of last year she announced that she was putting on hold the Scottish Parliament’s request to Westminster that […]




How Brexit Became A Problem For Nicola Sturgeon

7th June 2018 Comment Elections, parties & leaders Policy issues

When the outcome of the EU referendum was announced, it looked at first glance as though it represented a golden opportunity for the nationalist movement. The divergence between the majority Remain vote in Scotland and the majority Leave vote across the UK as a whole provided what must have seemed to nationalists like a perfect […]