A little over a week ago, the British people went to the polls. Although the snap general election was supposed to strengthen the government’s negotiating hand in leaving the European Union, the outcome had the opposite effect, casting uncertainty over the nature of Brexit, and with it the country’s future political and economic stability.
It was an election that in its outcome signalled that Britain had become two nations: one committed as it were, to ‘make Britain great again’ and restore an imagined past, and another, led by the young, the better educated, those living in liberal cosmopolitan cities, and in Scotland, who saw a very different