The fight over Scottish independence appears to be deadlocked
The United Kingdom seems to have weathered its moment of maximum danger
IN RECENT YEARS, the disintegration of the United Kingdom has sometimes seemed nigh. Scottish independence was a “very high probability”, wrote one fund manager in January 2021. A few months later Citi, a bank, put the odds of separation at 35% within a decade. Some senior Tories thought a break-up was near-inescapable.
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Britain March 5th 2022
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