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SUMMARY:Scotland and independence referendums: short- and long-term reflec
 tions - Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)\, Tom Devine (Unive
 rsity of Edinburgh)\, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean\, Blavatnik School of G
 overnment)
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DESCRIPTION:The issue of independence or maintaining the three-century-old
  Union continues to dominate the politics of Scotland and is likely to be 
 one of the defining post-COVID-19\, post-Brexit topics for the whole of th
 e UK. Polling shows the constitutional question is the most important cons
 ideration in the forthcoming Scottish parliamentary election in May. Regar
 dless of the outcome of the election\, the issue will not go away. It is p
 ossible that after that election\, or at some other point in the future\, 
 there is a clash between the mandate of the Scottish electorate on the one
  hand\, and the laws of the United Kingdom as a whole on the other\, over 
 the question of whether to hold a further referendum (in 2014 Scottish peo
 ple voted to remain in the United Kingdom by a margin of 55 to 45 per cent
 ).\n\nThis potential clash of laws and votes is not the only hotly debated
  topic. Other questions abound over the rules of any future referendum\, w
 hat prospectus should be put forward by the pro-independence and pro-Union
  sides about what happens if their argument triumphs\, and what reforms ar
 e possible that might increase support for Scotland remaining in the Union
  above the precarious levels shown in recent surveys.\n\nCiaran Martin\, P
 rofessor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blav
 atnik School of Government\, will present a paper entitled 'Resist\, refor
 m or re-run: Scotland and independence referendums in the long and short t
 erm'\, in which he delves into the constitutional issues related to the re
 ferendum\, drawing on direct personal experience from the 2014 referendum 
 and the negotiations preceding it.  A conversation with Sir Tom Devine\, S
 cotland’s leading historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of 
 Edinburgh\, and Professor Ngaire Woods\, dean of the Blavatnik School\, wi
 ll follow.\n\nFor more information and to register\, visit the event webpa
 ge.\nSpeakers:\nCiaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)\, Tom Devin
 e (University of Edinburgh)\, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean\, Blavatnik Sch
 ool of Government)
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