Nicola Sturgeon threw a gauntlet at Boris Johnson today and fought her in a second referendum.
The “relentless” Prime Minister has announced a provocative bill to vote on October 19th next year.
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She is seeking a Supreme Court ruling on whether the ballot blueprint can be formally laid out.
Unable to vote without Westminster’s words, the Prime Minister repeatedly beat Ms. Sturgeon’s relentless call for another crack.
However, Nat leader today announced a “consultation vote” to put pressure on Downing Street.
Under her bill, the referendum question is the same as in 2014: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”
She states: “My determination is that the Scottish people, whether for, against, or not yet decided, express their views in a legal constitutional referendum and give the majority opinion a fair and democratic opinion. Is to ensure a process that allows you to establish in.
“The steps I’m setting today are trying to achieve that.”
She instructed the Prime Minister to approve the second referendum and accused him of holding Scottish democracy as a “prisoner.”
She urged him to agree to Section 30, “It is democratically unacceptable that the route to the referendum must go through courts, not cooperation between the British and Scottish governments.” Was furious.
Scottish Tory leader Doug Ross has blown up FM’s “selfish obsession with another decisive referendum.”