As the Scottish National Party gathered in Aberdeen for the its annual conference, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had also travelled north of the border. SNP conferences are of course a platform for the party to coalesce around its core aim of Scottish independence.
But at Labour’s conference in September, Burnham told colleagues the union is “worth saving” and “worth fighting for” and he was determined not to be “the last prime minister of the United Kingdom”. This was a riposte to SNP leader and Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who had predicted exactly that weeks earlier.
