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However, the recent decline in support for leaving the UK in opinion polls may well see that slide down the priority list with instead something of a phony war breaking out over whether Scotland has the "right to hold a referendum” or not – unless Boris Johnson decides to follow some Conservative strategists’ advice and “call the nationalists’ bluff”.
All this could occupy a considerable amount of ministerial time, but it’s clear there will also be plenty of other pressing matters to attend to in the new government’s in-tray.
Nicola Sturgeon’s admission that her government took its “eye off the ball” over the high number of drug deaths in Scotland was a frank but shocking one and her choice of words sparked much comment from opposition politicians who feel independence remains an abiding distraction from the more everyday politics that can have a very real impact on people’s lives.