THINK back to October 15, 2012, ten years ago this month. Headline news was the signing of the Edinburgh Agreement. This historic treaty was the culmination of a negotiation that took several years and had many twists and turns. In the end, both governments signed up to an accord based on democratic values.
Then Prime Minister David Cameron and his Scottish Secretary Michael Moore arrived to blue skies and autumn sunshine to meet the then First Minister Alex Salmond and his deputy Nicola Sturgeon at St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh for the ceremony.
At a press conference afterwards, Sturgeon and Salmond stood side by side a lecterns marked with the Saltire. Salmond waved the document at the assembled journalists, saying: “It paves the way for the most important decision our country of Scotland has made in several hundred years.”
