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At the moment the Scottish public does not prioritise a referendum, which gives Boris Johnson a lot of political space to resist it. But in so doing, the clear risk for No 10 is that over time it antagonises Scots and public opinion shifts.

That& #39;s why people are misunderstanding the majority pint. It& #39;s Scottish public opinion on a referendum which the PM will find most difficult to resist, rather than the SNP& #39;s mandate, whatever its form. Had the SNP won a maj, Johnson& #39;s response would likely have been the same.

Better to understand the pro-indy maj in the Scottish Parl as a necessary pre-condition for Nicola Sturgeon& #39;s prosecution of the next stage. An SNP only maj would have made that precondition stronger but it doesn& #39;t extinguish it, far from it.