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Many Scots want independence from the United Kingdom. How might that play out in a post-Brexit world?

  • Written by Simon Tormey, Professor of Politics, University of Bristol
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Of the many issues thrown up by Brexit, one of the most pressing is the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. Brexit was in large measure a revolt by a certain section of English and Welsh opinion against transnational elites, immigration and imagined loss of identity. Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain.

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