The two-day hearing, set to begin on October 11, is taking place because Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has – and on her previous promise – turned to the Governing Council with a petition to examine whether a new referendum can be held without permission. from the London government.
The Scottish Prime Minister has already raised the possibility of a referendum in June, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not approved it.
The Scottish First Minister wants a referendum on Scottish independence to be held on October 19, 2023.
Among his main arguments is that the Scottish National Party and the Green Party won a majority in last year’s Scottish parliamentary elections. According to Sturgeon, this also meant a mandate to call a new independence referendum.
In Scotland, a majority of the 5.5 million voters in 2014 decided that the country should remain part of the United Kingdom, but in the 2016 Brexit referendum, a majority of Scots voted to remain in the EU. According to Sturgeon, if Scottish voters had known in 2014 the direction the UK would take in the following years, a majority would have already voted for independence in a referendum at that time.
Just like yesterday inform usEx-Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are likely to vie for the position of British Prime Minister as a result of the ruling Conservative Party’s parliamentary group voting series that ended on Wednesday.
Whoever the politician becomes Prime Minister will surely also have to meet the challenge of the ever-growing desire for Scottish independence.
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