Polling suggests that Nicola Sturgeon will achieve a majority at Holyrood and demand a re-run of the 2014 referendumBoris Johnson is preparing to spend billions of pounds improving rail and road links in Scotland as well as treating more Scottish patients in English NHS beds in his latest attempt to blunt the SNP threat to the Union. The prime minister also plans to boost student exchanges among the home nations through the new Turing scheme and order diplomats to make the case against Scottish independence in foreign capitals. SponsoredThere are growing fears in Westminster of an SNP landslide in this week’s Scottish elections, with polling suggesting that Nicola Sturgeon will achieve a majority at Holyrood and demand a re-run of the 2014 referendum. The Scottish first minister has said that she may hold a plebiscite as early as 2023, depending on recovery

Source: The Times May 02, 2021 23:03 UTC