EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister said the mandate for another referendum would not be invalidated by a bad result on July 4th.
The SNP leader claimed a bad result on July 4th would not invalidate the mandate he says the Government has for another referendum.But the strategy was thrown into disarray after the UK Government refused to negotiate and the courts blocked Holyrood from staging their own referendum.
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