Sir Keir Starmer’s Scottish reset is under strain
The relationship is friendlier, but more rivalrous
Since the independence referendum of 2014, Scotland’s politicians have bombarded its people with constitutional blueprints. The Scottish National Party (SNP), which runs the devolved government in Edinburgh, sought a second vote on separation. The Conservative Party, ruling in Westminster, responded with a doctrine of “muscular unionism”. Thinkers in the Labour Party sought to split the difference with ideas for “devo-max”, or a federal Britain. Politics became paralysed.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The trouble with frenemies”
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