The Summer of Scotland after Sarwar, Sturgeon and Swinney
The Summer of Scotland after Sarwar, Sturgeon and Swinney Bella Caledonia, 4 August 2026 Gerry Hassan The Andy Burnham administration has taken office. It faces huge challenges - economic, political, geopolitical - along with no direct popular mandate and the rising storm of radicalised right-wing opinion in the UK waiting to devour anything that gets in its way. At the same time implicit in this is a challenge to Scottish politics: its assumptions, beliefs and dynamics of recent decades and the present. This is particularly true of those of an independence persuasion who are used to treating all things Labour
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