Nicola’s nightmare: what if the Scots come to like Ed?

Popular Labour policies could end up binding an even greater majority of Scots to the United Kingdom

Columnist Don Brind

In 2010 we had ‘Cleggmania’; in 2015 we have the ‘Sturgeon surge’. Just as success in the TV debates at the last general election made Nick Clegg a national figure, so it has helped make Nicola Sturgeon a significant player on the British political scene.

But just how much power can she really hope to wield at Westminster?

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.