Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te kawanatanga i raro i a Margaret Thatcher i tino kore i te rongonui i Scotland, i te whakanui i te tautoko mo te whakakorenga o Scotland me te mana motuhake. I whakahe a Major ki te whakawātea, e tautohe ana ka waiho noa iho hei taahiraa ki te mana motuhake me te wehenga o te United Kingdom. I aro hoki a Major ki nga raru pea o te whakaoho i te riri o Ingarangi, na nga take penei i te patai o West Lothian me te nui ake o te whakapaunga a te iwi i Scotland. I whakapuakina e Major tana karere pro-union i roto i tetahi korero i Glasgow i te 22 o Hui-tanguru 1992, i muri mai ka waiho te kaupapa hei kaupapa matua i tana kaupapa pooti pooti 1992, e kii ana "Kei te raru te United Kingdom. Whakatika mai, e oku hoa whenua, maranga mai i mua i te mutunga". I roto i taua pōtitanga i piki ake ai te tokomaha o ngā tūru o Scotland, mai i te iwa ki te tekau mā tahi. Ahakoa i whakahe ia ki te whakakorenga, i whakaae a Major ki te tuku i etahi mana taapiri ki te Tari o Scotland me te Komiti Nui o Scotland i te tau 1993, me te mahi tohu ki te whakahoki i te Stone of Scone ki Edinburgh i te tau 1996. Heoi kāore ēnei nekehanga i whakapai ake i ngā tūponotanga o te Conservative i Scotland; i whakangaromia te rōpū i ngā pōtitanga ā-rohe o te tau 1995, ā, i te pōtitanga whānui o te tau 1997, kāore i taea e rātau te wikitōria i tētahi tūruhi Scottish kotahi i muri i te kupu whakaari a Labour mō tētahi rōpū rangatiratanga.
te pōtitanga mō te Pāremata o Kōti.