Dinner Across the Divide: "I thought: are they going to send me a screaming trade unionist?"

Eleanor, 27, Edinburgh ">

Neuroscience profession

Labour and Green vote record. And stay in the EU referendum

Amuse-bouche Eleanor loves caving: "It's the opportunity to go somewhere no one has gone before"

Paul, 54, Edinburgh

Profession Marketing manager for a financial services company

Record of SNP votes, yes in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 , remains in EU referendum

Amuse bouche Paul is a metalhead, started going to gigs in the mid-1980s and still loves nothing more than to smash it in the pit

Getting Started

El eanor Paul has a strong sense of national identity. He has lived in Scotland all his life. My mum is Irish, my dad was born in Malta and I spent my childhood moving around the UK. I have a more dispersed sense of identity.

Paul, I thought, are they going to send in a screaming unionist? It's hard with something binary like independence. But Eleanor had specific points - she wanted to see a white paper on what they offer. spacefinder -type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-10khgmf">