Scottish independence needs to be more respectful as it has become "stuck in a rut", a top political academic has said. Professor James Mitchell - who has written a number of books examining devolution and the SNP - said the “binary choice between union and independence” should be replaced by a wider look at the kind of society that Scots wanted.
Mitchell said there were "a multitude of options for governing Scotland" and these needed to be to be "accommodated respectfully" in the debate on the country's future.
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