The SNP will win this week’s Holyrood elections – but the margin of victory will test whether it can push for independence again

Eilidh Hamilton has signed three separate petitions calling for her local MP to stand down, but she won’t be voting in this week’s Scottish parliament elections.

“It’s like getting back to football matches or going on holiday: elections are the last thing we should be thinking about when there’s still so much uncertainty about Covid,” says the floral designer, standing amid buckets of blooms in her shop on Rutherglen’s Main Street.

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