What next for Scottish independence?
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last week the Scottish National Party won a historic fourth term in government. With a commitment to hold another independence referendum – and a majority in the Scottish parliament for it – what happens next?
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- Kieran Andrews, Scottish political editor, The Times.
- Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.
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| 0:00.0 | It was one of those elections on which history is pinned. |
| 0:08.3 | Last week, Scotsand voted to return the Scottish National Party to power for a historic fourth |
| 0:14.8 | term. |
| 0:17.0 | What could that result mean for Scotsand's future in the United Kingdom? |
| 0:21.4 | In Norway, can a referendum be described as just a demand of me or of the SMP? |
| 0:29.0 | It is a commitment made to the people by a clear majority of the MSPs who have been elected |
| 0:36.4 | to our national parliament. |
| 0:38.1 | It is the will of the country. |
| 0:40.6 | We are not just the evenly divided country, we are now deeply, deeply polarised on the |
| 0:46.3 | constitutional question, arguably even more deeply polarised than the UK has been and |
| 0:51.5 | arguably still is over Brexit. |
| 0:53.9 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Manvin Rana, today. |
| 1:01.0 | What next for Scottish independence? |
| 1:10.1 | My name's Keir Nandres and I'm the Scottish political editor of the Times. |
| 1:14.7 | Keirin has been covering the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood since 2012. |
| 1:19.9 | We've all been by and large confined to our homes and I think it's fair to say there's |
| 1:24.3 | quite a lot of people in the Scottish political bubble who thought that was going to result |
| 1:29.7 | in a low turnout election because, frankly, we were all a bit bored of it and instead |
| 1:35.4 | what we saw last Thursday was record numbers of people turning out in the hail, in the |
| 1:40.9 | sleet, in the pouring rain in Scotland. |
| 1:43.4 | Welcome to your Scottish forecast, here are your headlines into Thursday. |
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