Jim Murphy is quitting frontline politics with a bang. The outgoing leader of the Scottish Labour party addressed Policy Exchange this afternoon, offering his thoughts on why Labour lost the election and did so badly north of the border. Murphy revealed that he thinks another independence referendum is inevitable:
‘There will be another referendum whenever the SNP can get away with it. Why wouldn’t there? If you were an insurgent nationalist party with unprecedented power and with an absolute majority of parliamentarians in both parliaments, why wouldn’t you try and engineer certain circumstances that get you another referendum?
‘My frustration is that Cameron is so lame-assly dumb on it that he would stumble into it and give them an excuse to do it.’
Murphy did not hold back on his criticism of those evil Tories, blaming the Prime Minister’s talk of English nationalism for Labour’s ‘terrible’ defeat at the general election:
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