Sep 2, 2020 02:46 AM
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https://www.trtworld.com/europe/scottish...ndum-39394
EXCERPTS: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to publish draft legislation for a new Scottish independence referendum, including the question and timing of the vote, before the country's parliamentary election next year.
Sturgeon, who heads Edinburgh's pro-independence devolved government, put on hold plans for a second referendum in March to concentrate on the coronavirus crisis. However, the most sustained support for Scottish independence in the modern era has prompted nationalists to renew their push for another vote. In a 2014 referendum on independence, Scots voted 55-45 percent to stay in the UK. [...] Scottish voters opposed leaving the EU in a 2016 referendum.
[...] Perceptions that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has responded slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic and Scots' anger over the UK's decision to leave the European Union has led, for the first time, to sustained support of over 50 percent for independence... (MORE - details)
Will Boris Johnson be the reason Scotland breaks away from the UK?
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CUezWH4mghw
EXCERPTS: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to publish draft legislation for a new Scottish independence referendum, including the question and timing of the vote, before the country's parliamentary election next year.
Sturgeon, who heads Edinburgh's pro-independence devolved government, put on hold plans for a second referendum in March to concentrate on the coronavirus crisis. However, the most sustained support for Scottish independence in the modern era has prompted nationalists to renew their push for another vote. In a 2014 referendum on independence, Scots voted 55-45 percent to stay in the UK. [...] Scottish voters opposed leaving the EU in a 2016 referendum.
[...] Perceptions that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has responded slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic and Scots' anger over the UK's decision to leave the European Union has led, for the first time, to sustained support of over 50 percent for independence... (MORE - details)
Will Boris Johnson be the reason Scotland breaks away from the UK?