Nicola Sturgeon, the head of the Scottish government, said it was time to rethink the matter in order for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday, June 14, launched a campaign for a second independence referendum. This is according to the AP.
Sturgeon, who heads the Scottish National Party as well as the Scottish government, said it was time to revisit the issue to leave Scotland in the UK.
“After everything that has happened – Brexit, COVID, Boris Johnson – it’s time to lay out a different and better perspective,” he said as he released the first in a series of government documents outlining the case for freedom.
Scotland rejected independence in a referendum in 2014, in which 55% of voters said they wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Sturgeon said he wanted a new vote for independence before the end of 2023. It would require the green light from the British government, which opposes a new referendum.
But Sturgeon argues that things have changed since 2014, most importantly due to the UK’s departure from the European Union, which most people in Scotland oppose.
“If we knew in 2014 everything we know now about the path the UK has taken, I have no doubt that Scotland voted yes then,” Sturgeon said.
Sturgeon said that when he was re -elected as First Minister last year, he “had a clear commitment to give the people of Scotland the option to become an independent country”.
He said on Tuesday that the Scottish Parliament had an “unquestionable democratic mandate” to vote. Sturgeon’s party leads a majority in the Scottish Parliament, which campaigns for independence along with the Scottish Green Party.
Sturgeon called on the Boris Johnson government to issue a special mandate allowing a legally binding independence referendum. He added that he was willing to discuss the terms with Johnson.
Johnson’s office again declined the offer.
“The British government’s position is now is not the time to talk about another referendum,” Johnson’s spokesman said.
We will recall, Nicola Sturgeon said earlier that Scotland immediately after achieving independence intends to join NATO.
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