A Constitutional Convention now looks like the safest way out of the constitutional shambles

Following a closer than expected outcome in the Scottish independence referendum, many are criticising David Cameron for his negotiation of the Edinburgh Agreement which paved the way for the referendum. Nat le Roux thinks is more concerned about Cameron and other party leaders having precipitated a slow-motion constitutional train crash. It represents a peculiar type of collective folly for the party leaders to approach major constitutional reform, which would be effectively irreversible, in the same spirit of short-term political improvisation, he writes