I ask this question as a Scot who suspects the answer is all too depressingly clear. Brexit requires brave, clear-sighted, flexible co-operation between the Tory and SNP governments in London and Edinburgh. Instead, all we have seen is timid, shortsighted, uncompromising partisanship. A key reason, I believe, is that the prime minister has a conflict of interest. This sorry state of affairs is down to a flaw in the British system of government that has lain,…

Source: The Times May 08, 2018 22:52 UTC