Swinney indyref mantra shows the nationalist balloon has burst

POLLING guru Sir John Curtice claims that John Swinney's strategy of regarding the next election result as a catalyst for another independence referendum is more about shoring up support for his SNP with a poll looming, rather than anything to do with the constitutional question.

- Alexander McKay

It must be said that, rightly or wrongly over the years, many on the pro-UK side of the constitutional question have thought Sir John to have a pronounced pro-nationalist leaning s