Ten years ago today Scots went to the polls to choose whether to stay in or leave the UK.
We all know the result, but the question has never gone away. Defeat for the Yes campaign was not the fatal blow those in the No camp had hoped.And without a doubt the divisions that the campaign to stay or go revealed in Scotland remain to this day; it has cast a very long shadow.
Her last throw of the dice was to go to the Supreme Court in 2022 and ask it to rule, once and for all, on the legalities of the constitutional settlement; could the Scottish Government hold its own referendum without Westminster’s agreement? The judges, like the people of Scotland in 2014, said No.There was a suggestion afterwards that a General Election result should be used as a defacto referendum.
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