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Nicola Sturgeon's party 'would be struggling' in the campaign were it not for the pandemic and the constitution, an expert claims

Updated: 22 Feb 2021, 22:14 THE SNP has “no credible roadmap” to independence and needs a spell in opposition to “sort itself out”, a leading political academic has warned. Professor James Mitchell — an authority on the Nats — said the party’s civil war went “well beyond healthy debate”. 3 3 He says Nicola Sturgeon will 'struggle to control Indy campaign'Credit: AFP or licensors And he claimed while Nicola Sturgeon will keep a firm grip on the SNP until May’s Holyrood poll “she will struggle to control the campaign for independence in any future referendum”. Prof Mitch...

He said: “There has also been no credible strategy to deliver a referendum.   “The SNP ‘feeble fifty’ jibe when Labour’s 50 Scottish MPs (69%) failed to deliver devolution after the 1987 general election has come home to roost.   “With 48 (81%) of Scotland’s 59 MPs, the SNP is unable to deliver a referendum.”  He added: “Intoxicated spin of evidence from opinion polls has not helped.   “Support has grown but far from the consistent and convincing lead that would be necessary to risk another referendum.   “We hear less these days about the 60% that ma...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) A Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) professor has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project following an uproar over her 'disparaging comments' about the people living in Qatar, it is learnt. In January, it was announced that the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) had awarded NU-Q professors Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and Venus S Jin, along with Hamad Bin Khalifa University professor Mohamed Evren Tok, a grant to study the obstacles and successes of women entrepreneurship in Qatar. The $700,000 grant was awarded by QNRF's National Priorities Research Programme. Since...