The last time both leaders of government from north and south of the border were women things ended badly. Mary, Queen of Scots, eventually had her head chopped off.
Yesterday, at Bute House in Edinburgh, the odds seemed stacked rather more in favour of Mary’s successor, Nicola “Queen Nic” Sturgeon, the first minister. Protocol you’d think, would demand the flags of each great nation would fly on the occasion of her first meeting with Theresa May, but only two Saltires fluttered under Edinburgh’s leaky summer sky.
It says much about the state of the nation that within 48 hours of assuming office, the prime minister felt duty bound to lead her retinue north.
The consequences of the Brexit vote has brought a second Scottish independence
