SNP party conference: UK held back by ‘chippy nationalism’

THE UK is viewed as a nation held back by “chippy nationalism” and a “fear of outsiders” by other countries around the world, a leading SNP cabinet minister said yesterday.

THE UK is viewed as a nation held back by “chippy nationalism” and a “fear of outsiders” by other countries around the world, a leading SNP cabinet minister said yesterday. Fiona Hyslop, the infrastructure and external affairs minister, launched an attack on the myth of “innate superiority”the British establishment has clung to at the SNP conference in Perth.