Scotland: A short generation?

The Scottish National Party still falls short of a majority. It will once again form a coalition or at least a voting alliance with the pro-independence Green Party in the Scottish parliament to form a government.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson fought tooth and nail to prevent a second referendum on leaving the EU, which opinion polls from mid-2017 onwards consistently suggested would have gone against Brexit. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 10, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland declared in 2014 that the referendum on Scotland’s independence that her Scottish National Party demanded and lost later that year would be “once in a generation.” It has turned out to be a very short ge...

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