Scotland’s leader,seen as her nation’s Angela Merkel, sidelined all talk of a referendum at the SNP conference in AberdeenShortly before Nicola Sturgeon delivered her tall speech at the SNP conference, or she swapped her Saltire-blue dress of earlier in the day for a scarlet one. It was a sign of the land grab into red territory that was to reach.“I don’t mind admitting I had high hopes when Jeremy Corbyn was elected,” Sturgeon told delegates at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. “I don’t agree with him on everything. And I didn’t expect to convert him to the cause of independence – not immediately besides – but I did hope he would change Labour. But so far Jeremy Corbyn isn’t changing Labour, he’s allowing Labour to change him.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com