Henry McLeish, the former Scottish Labour first minister, has revealed he would vote for independence in a second referendum unless the UK is radically reformed.
McLeish expressed pessimism about any reform of the “highly centralised” Union on the eve of the Labour Party conference.
He said Boris Johnson’s “brutal Unionism” risks “dismantling” devolution and claimed there was “no settled will” on the constitutional question seven years on from the 2014 vote, when 55 per cent of people voted to stay part of the UK.
“What I’m saying, and this is the sting in the tail of my message, is that if the Union doesn’t look like, from Labour or the Conservatives, that it’s going in the way that I’m talking about, then yes, I would
