Elliott Simpson

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Elliott Simpson is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and HEC Paris, and is currently in the Master of Global Affairs program at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. Elliott also produces a podcast and webinar series at Arctic360, Canada’s principal think tank for Arctic policy issues. He is a Junior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada, and is looking forward to joining the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves later this year.

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What Would be the Defence Implications of an Independent Scotland?

byElliott Simpson
May 22, 2021

Scotland’s election on May 6 saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) win 64 of 129 seats in Holyrood, Scotland’s Parliament. Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the SNP, takes this win—the latest in a series of four consecutive wins for the party—as a mandate to press ahead with a second referendum for Scottish independence.