NICOLA STURGEON was stopped in her tracks by Boris Johnson when he refused to grant Scotland another independence referendum - yet, the Prime Minister was urged to allow Indyref2 to go ahead by a government think tank late last year.
to transfer powers to the Scottish Parliament to allow this to go ahead. She has been driven by the fact that Scotland voted to Remain in the EU back in 2016, but as part of the UK it has left the bloc anyway.She would like to be able to call a referendum either through a permanent transfer of power or a temporary one called a ‘section 30 order’ – these would ensure the referendum result was legitimate.
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