Ahead of the elections to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 7 May, Alastair Donald and Rob Lyons talked to Dean Thomson, author of Scotland Undone: Nationalism, Dogma, and Decline in the Devolution Era. In a wide-ranging discussion, topics included:
- Thoughts on what will happen in the election, including the fall and rise of the SNP, the Reform UK insurgency, the decline of Labour and Conservatives
- The much-forgotten 'double out' voters who want to leave the UK and voted to leave the EU
- How devolution came about and how the SNP went from opponents to claiming it as their own
- The rise of the 'lanyard class' in Scotland
- The prospects for the future - do we need a more federal UK?
