“You’ve got to provide a vision,” says journalist Lesley Riddoch. “It’s the only way any political change happens.”
This is the challenge for pro-independence campaigners like the award-winning Riddoch, born in Northern Ireland to Highland Scots parents, who came out for “Yes” in the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.
Scots voted “No.”
But the question has not gone away.
Successive pro-independence governments have been voted into Holyrood, Scotland’s devolved government, for a quarter of a century.
Whether the independence question will be asked again soon, and the manner of its asking, is itself a point of conflict between the ruling Scottish National Party and the UK government in Westminster….