All a unionist party does by dissolving its British connections is signal to the electorate that the SNP are right.
Also: ‘Self-financing’ Yes campaign bankrolled by the SNP; and Welsh Labour minister uninterested in ‘English Labour’ leadership contest.
Support for the SNP and independence stayed the same before and after the film’s release.
We need devolution for England’s counties as well as its cities – and that can’t simply be imposed from the centre.
Also: Welsh Assembly in revolt over plans to increase members’ pay; and Carmichael at risk of recall for leaking Sturgeon’s Tory sympathies.
We won without yet breaking through in the North, urban Britain, or Scotland – but we’re now in a position to make real headway in all three.
Reforming it could free up more funds to help the poorest without an extra penny of taxes or cuts.
Also: General election could take fourth scalp as SDLP leader faces calls to quit; Scottish Greens plan surge; and Welsh call for EU poll to avoid Assembly election.
It’s a question that Parliamentarians will have wrestle with for the next five years and beyond.
The Scottish Conservatives only held their single seat at the General Election, but do the 2016 and 2020 elections offer the prospect of breakthrough?
The SNP are now entitled to substantial committee representation. If EVEL is to mean anything, it must extend beyond the chamber.
Immigration control, more jobs, new homes – and the “big, open and comprehensive offer” that this Government can make to voters in its first hundred days.
Could the SNP refuse such an offer?
“We cannot have our leaders selected, or deselected, by the grudges and grievances of one prominent man. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party doesn’t serve by the grace of Len McCluskey.”
Opportunities for Scotland’s Conservatives lie ahead – if the right organisation and resources can be found.