The Critic Magazine

Indyref2: yes or no?

WHAT IS LIZ TRUSS going to do about Scotland? “If I am elected,” the prime minister said while campaigning in August, “I will not allow another independence referendum.”

She has every reason to hope that a challenge to be heard by the UK Supreme Court on 11 and 12 October will go her way. But what if it doesn’t?

Truss, who was brought up in Paisley, describes herself as a child of the union. “To me we’re not just neighbours: we’re family. I will

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