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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's I'm joined by my colleague Patrick for this week's New Statesman

podcast. Stephen is in Wales interviewing Mark Drakeford, so he can't join us.

Today we're going to speak about the Union and its prospects after the election

result. How likely is it that we'll have a second Scottish referendum and what do the results

in Northern Ireland mean for the Union and also how will the Brexit deal affect Northern Ireland?

And you ask us what's going to happen in the Labour leadership election?

So one of the tweets that I dimly remember from the fog of election night was by

Alex Massey, a columnist at The Spectator and The Times and he said it's a very good night for the

Conservative Party but a very bad night for the Conservative and Unionist Party and

and since then the sort of received wisdom has been to say that the prospects of the

Union are now a lot dimmer since the election

result than they were before. What do you think of that kind of analysis?

Yeah, well it's interesting in that it's funny obviously that's the instinctive reaction go that the

Scottish Tories went from 13 seats to 7 the sMP absolutely

walloped both the Scottish Tories and Scottish Labour they turned Scotland

after 2017 was a country of sort of hyper- marginals, loads of

SMP holds with double or triple digits. Now you know basically you'd be hard-pressed to find a seat with an

SMP majority under a thousand. There are a couple, but they're very much the

rarity. So obviously any reasonable observer will look at that on election night or indeed the morning after

and say it's been a great night of the SMP, you know as the SMP is saying, you know, they've successfully

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