Theresa May was an authentically unionist prime minister. Rare was the speech that failed to mention her love for the four nations of the UK and she was of course a staunch opponent of Scottish independence.
Despite the rhetoric, though, May didn’t actually do much about it. Beset by Brexit and weighed down by the challenge of managing a split, fractious party in a hung parliament, she had little headspace or time to pursue policies that might strengthen rather than weaken the bonds of the United Kingdom.
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