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Sturgeon can’t hide the economic costs of Scexit

11 May 2021

5:09 PM

11 May 2021

5:09 PM

Might the 2020s be the seismic decade in which the post-war consensus, that liberal democracies do not and should not break apart, is broken? Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon certainly thinks so. Her lifelong quest to break up Britain must feel closer than ever after winning last week’s Holyrood elections.

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