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Centre on Constitutional Change
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2024
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How did the SNP fail to gain a second independence referendum?
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Firstly, the party is no longer considered to be substantively more competent than the alternatives. This perception may also have been shaped by the SNP’s ongoing leadership crisis.
Secondly, in the aftermath of Liz Truss’s premiership, the Conservatives have become politically toxic across most of Great Britain, not just Scotland. The causal link between support for Scottish secession and support for the SNP has largely been broken. The salience of secessionism has declined, and the structural relationships that ensured SNP-Conservative electoral co-dependence have shattered.
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