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Irish drink to loosen tongues around righteous leading lady (6, 8)

Nae u Scot girl - no reform! (6,8)

Consulting everyone over another referendum initially? Unlikely (6,8)

Tsar, leaving hospital, presses diminished old king into turn as leader (6,8)

Internet access! Lots for me to consider - thanks all, and I'll hope to respond later this evening.

Thanks to Rosalind for kicking this off for me.

And thanks all for not minding that Sturgeon had been used about 2.5 years ago: I felt we had a different opportunity using the lady's name.

Well, thanks for such a good crop of clues. Her name includes every vowel and lots of good consonants - a gift to those that like anagrams (ok, you know I do!).

I had a good laugh at skye@16 (Krankie) and liked skye@23, paul@22 (thanks for setting up the theme, paul!) and the clever racing/driver misdirection of skye@17.

The winner, with its relevance and particularly smooth surface is seamus@12:

Has union lost grace for this separatist? (6,8)

Well done, Seamus. Apologies, unable to work on a YouTube prize. Feel free to feast on any Jimmy Krankie vids you can find ...

Congrats seamus, thanks stevea

Didn't have time to enter this week but well done Seamus and cheers do Steve

Congratulations Seamus
Cheers Stevea/Rosalind

Thanks steve. Time to put the thinking cap on.