Will the hardline Nationalist party faithful be so adulatory if Nicola Sturgeon lets independence take too much of a back seat? PA:Press AssociationWhen Nicola Sturgeon stood up to speak at SNP conference yesterday, she did so as party leader. When politicians come to power they make pious statements about governing for the whole nation and not just for the party faithful. Yesterday that sentiment was honoured in deed as well as word. This was an SNP leader quite deliberately refusing to give her party members what they wanted, and instead pursuing a strategy that could conceivably crush their…

Source: The Times October 13, 2016 23:02 UTC