Murdo Ritchie, a new member of the RCN, writes about the political significance of the issue of a written constitution raised the SNP government’s White Paper.
Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon present the SNP government’s ‘White Paper’ to a press conference
Although the First Minister has abandoned the SNP’s commitments to referenda on a future independent Scotland’s membership of NATO and the European Union as well as continuing the current monarch as head-of-state, he has remained quite firm on the importance of a written constitution for a future Scotland. Indeed he has emphasised this policy more strenuously than many others. It may be the single most important policy proposal he has made. It is central to a full and proper understanding of the importance of the White Paper (1).
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