'Super Thursday' sets stage for EU referendum anxiety

WITH only weeks before the June 23 "in-out" European Union (EU) referendum, Britain held "Super Thursday" ballots with landmark results. The welcome election in London of Labour's Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a capital city in the Western world, grabbed the headlines, but underlying this is a bigger story about the fracturing of politics across England, Scotland and Wales which could yet have a key bearing on the forthcoming referendum outcome.

For Labour's victories in the Bristol and London mayoral elections - the latter in which Mr Khan gained the biggest individual political mandate in British history - plus the party's strong performance in the Welsh Assembly elections, was counterpoised by the robust showing of the Scottish Independence Party (SNP) in the Scottish Parliament ballots to win a historic third team, plus the better-th…