Scotland’s Constitutional Crisis

One of the themes that emerges from my research for the book on Mull is the

simmering resentment towards the Westminster government (and the English)

about the decision to leave the European Union with complete disregard for the

wishes of the Scottish people. In talking with many Scots of varying political

allegiances, I discovered an almost universal view (including from those who had

voted to stay in the UK in the Independence Referendum of 2014) that if the

British government took the UK out of the EU, then Scotland should withdraw

from the 1707 union. Since the exit from the EU in 2020, this issue has continued

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to simmer, and will only be defused if and when the UK rejoins the EU.