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18 Apr 2017

General election: Scotland’s reaction

Well here in Scotland this is something of a seismic moment. The vote here won’t be so much about Brexit as independence and another chance to determine the future of the United Kingdom itself. Nicola Sturgeon called Mrs May’s announcement a “huge political miscalculation” and she will be banking on Scottish voters rejecting not just the Tories, but trouncing Labour too.