Scotland enters 2025 in conflicted spirits. It has decided that independence isn’t, for now, a priority. It played its part in electing a new Labour government and removing the Tories from office.
This would suggest some certainty of purpose, but that would be to misunderstand the national mood. Keir Starmer has so far been largely disappointing. The SNP is once again ahead in the polls, suggesting many Scots have yet to give up on Holyrood’s governing party, even as it enters its 18th year in office and after a couple of years that have largely been dominated by scandal and policy failure.
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