Why Scottish nationalists should see Burnham as a real threat – and an opportunity | Rory Scothorne

The PM’s goals may spell bad news for the SNP. Ironically, his EU bridge-building could also resurrect their dreams of independenceFifty years ago this month, a group of leftwing Scots gathered in the Golden Lion hotel in Stirling for the inaugural conference of a new political party. The “Scottish Labour party” had formally split from Labour at the beginning of…