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Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland could not be “imprisoned” in the UK union against its will
Scotland “cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will” by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The Scottish first minister wants to hold a new referendum on independence in the second half of 2020, under the mandate of the SNP’s electoral success.
However, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be “respected”.
Ms Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, “it can only be by consent”.
She told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be “completely wrong” to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: “It’s a fundamental point of democracy – you can’t hold Scotland in the union against its will.”
However Mr Gove told the Sophy Ridge programme on Sky that “we were told in 2014 that that would be a choice for a generation – we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland”.
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