If there is a majority in the Scottish elections for an independence vote, it has to go ahead
The Covid pandemic has required every nation to reimagine its future and how best to recover from the biggest crisis of our times. Most countries have the ability to chart that recovery for themselves, in cooperation with international partners. But instead, imagine this. Imagine a country seeking to recover from Covid, without the ability to control the key economic and social policy levers needed to rebuild, while the bulk of social security powers, tax, employment, borrowing and migration powers are held elsewhere. For good measure, imagine that country was taken out of the EU and the huge European single market against its democratic will.
