This Thursday marks the date that the Scottish government had pencilled in for “independence day” if Scotland had voted to leave the UK in 2014’s independence referendum. So it seems a particularly apt time to revisit the Scottish question, which is already resurfacing ahead of the UK referendum on EU membership. But the economic case for Scottish independence is looking even shakier than at the time of the last referendum. Consequently, a Brexit could pose an economic cost to Scotland if it were to precipitate the region’s secession from the UK.
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