The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not. As Prime Minister, Boris Johnson called Scottish devolution ‘a disaster north of the border’. Liz Truss said while campaigning for the Conservative leadership that she would ‘ignore’ the ‘attention seeker’, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She was true to her word, never contacting Sturgeon or Mark Drakeford, First … [Read more...] about Can muscular unionism save the Union?
Iain McLean
About Iain McLean
Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and author of What’s Wrong With the British Constitution?. He was a Commissioner of the Fiscal Commission for Northern Ireland in 2021-22.