I thoroughly enjoyed this recent @bennettinstitute.bsky.social event: Philip Rycroft, in conversation with Peter Geoghegan, reflecting on the 2014 Scottish indy referendum and his own role in it. The key argument advanced is that key constitutional lessons haven't been learned. Well worth watching.
How did Whitehall react to the Scottish indy referendum in 2014? Was it a prelude to the Brexit referendum in 2016? Have lessons been learned should there be future existential risks to the British state? Philip Rycroft talks to Peter Geoghegan Watch: www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/savin...
Ten years ago the Scottish independence referendum posed an unprecedented and potentially existential challenge to the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. In this talk, Philip Rycroft, Former...