Elections in the UK: Johnson is strong, Starmer was weakened and Scotland moved towards a crisis

Hello and welcome to another episode of my podcast The Global Agora. My name is Andrej Matišák, and I work as the deputy head of foreign desk in Slovak daily Pravda. A big election day just took place in the United Kingdom. We have seen local elections for 145 English local councils, election to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Parliament and some other election races such as mayoral election in London. What does it mean for the future of the UK? Did Scotland move towards another independence referendum? And are the Tory leader and British PM Boris Johnson and the Labour leader Keir Starmer satisfied or unsatisfied with the results? I talked to Robin Pettitt. He is a Senior Lecturer of comparative politics at Kingston University and an expert in the internal life of political parties.