Scotland may have rejected independence, but the referendum has kick-started a debate on constitutional reform in both Scotland and the rest of the UK

There may be a temptation to think that the ‘no’ vote in the Scottish independence referendum last week will bring to an end, at least temporarily, the debate on how Scotland should be governed. That would be a mistake. On the contrary, the reaction to the referendum suggests that constitutional reform in Scotland, and indeed across the rest of the UK, remains firmly on the agenda, albeit that the pro-union parties are divided as to what that reform should look like.