Politics

John Walsh: The centre-left needs an economic vision to match its political rhetoric

Getting into government will be one thing for parties like the Social Democrats and Sinn Féin - making a success of it will be quite another, as the fate of Nicola Sturgeon shows

Nicola Sturgeon on the campaign trail: her progressive, centre-left pedigree was not in doubt, but she was unable to articulate a coherent economic model