There has been a flurry of excitement in recent days after a Labour insider suggested to the Sun newspaper that the party’s constitution might be changed at the request of Sir Keir Starmer to prevent it from ever going into coalition with the SNP or any other nationalist party.
Later the party’s message was changed somewhat to state that there would be no formal arrangement between a future Labour government and the SNP. The story was depressing for two reasons.
Firstly, because it made the absurd assumption that a formal Westminster coalition involving Labour and the SNP was remotely likely.
