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WITH Keir Starmer holding a 17-point lead over Liz Truss, how would Nicola Sturgeon manage if a centre-left Prime Minister comes to power in 2024 or before?

With regard to the SNP’s UK break-up dreams, it’ll be down to Westminster seat numbers held by each party. If Starmer achieves an outright majority, the SNP has no leverage. The separatists’ ideal arrangement (emphatically ruled out by Starmer) would be a minority Labour government it can prop up in return for granting Indyref 2 – yet Labour may well be in a position to turn to the Lib Dems to pass legislation under a confidence and supply arrangement.

Majority or minority Labour administration – the SNP could easily be sidelined.

Starmer may not agree with Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss on much. But with regard to Indyref 2, he may find he too can parrot ‘now is not the time’ for quite a few years yet.

MARTIN REDFERN, Melrose, roxburghshire.

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