WI: Scottish Home Rule passed before WW1 gets in the way

In 1913, there was a private members bill read to the House of Commons by the Scottish Liberal MP, Henry Cowan. It reached the stage of a second reading in early 1914, the First World War extinguished any chance of it being passed. Scotland would not get devolution until the 1990s.

So what if, Henry Cowan's Home Rule Bill had managed to produce a Scottish Parliament before the First World War derailed it? How would Scotland be different today?
 
Could there be a possibility of Scotland becoming a Dominion?

This could have knock-on effects for how closely united the other Dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, maybe Ireland, South Africa, and a few other places, become in an Imperial Federation.
 
Could there be a possibility of Scotland becoming a Dominion?

This could have knock-on effects for how closely united the other Dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, maybe Ireland, South Africa, and a few other places, become in an Imperial Federation.
At the time, it was more about Scotland, but mainly Ireland, receiving Home Rule within the United Kingdom rather than becoming a separate Dominion of the Commonwealth. There was even talk among the Irish Nationalists, the proponents of Scottish Home Rule and the minority who were pushing for Welsh Home Rule, that the future was for a Federal UK in which all four constituent nations get their own Home Rule legislatures, with Westminster acting as the Federal, or rather, 'Imperial' Parliament.
 
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