It seems counterintuitive, and maybe untimely, to think of the coronavirus epidemic as a “constitutional moment” as well as a medical crisis. It may turn out to be just that, though not for the reason you might think. A constitutional moment is when a decisive rearrangement of power takes place. We may just have seen the start of one. Not between London and Edinburgh, despite Nicola Sturgeon’s more skilled epidemic communications and the rise in independence support, but rather shifts inside England.

Source: The Times November 03, 2020 00:00 UTC