The battle for the union begins
“In the end, Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party fell one seat short of the overall majority it coveted” in last Thursday’s Scottish Parliament elections, says the Financial Times. Nonetheless, the SNP’s 64 members, together with eight Greens, make for a bigger majority for pro-independence parties in the 129-seat chamber than there was prior to the 2014 referendum. While it is
