It is a vote in which Scotland decides not just whether to stick with fourteen years of SNP government, and its handling of covid and public services - but whether to give it the mandate for a new independence referendum. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

To set a course for the end of the Union - or at least a confrontation with Boris Johnson who says he will refuse it.

Of those here tonight for the #NextLeaderOfScotland debate: Nicola Sturgeon is not alone wanting independence - the Greens support it too. But the Conservatives and Labour - currently fighting it out for second place in the polls, and the Lib Dems are all against another referendum and are pro-Union.


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