Britain’s Labour Party in open revolt over result of EU vote

He said after the results that he will resign as prime minister when the Conservative Party chooses a new leader, who will be charged with implementing the separation from the EU. Its members advise the leader on what policies Labour should embrace. “It’s not that we want to leave and get back in”, she said.

Sturgeon said she would meet European Parliament president Martin Schulz on Wednesday, along with senior liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt.

However, European Council President Donald Tusk has refused a meeting with the first minister, according to a source in the group of EU leaders.

In more encouraging news for the First Minister, Peter Stano, spokesman for the Slovakian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, opened the door to potential future bi-lateral talks with Scotland.

The EU will have 27 members when Britain leaves, a process that will take at least two years.

But Sturgeon stressed the circumstances had changed since 2014 and Scotland was in “uncharted territory” and that a new referendum was now “highly likely”.

Sturgeon said the United Kingdom that Scotland voted to remain a part of in a 2014 independence referendum “does not exist any more” after Thursday’s referendum to leave the EU.

He declined to be specific about support from particular countries.

Sturgeon has repeatedly made it clear since the results were announced on Friday that she will take all necessary steps to keep Scotland in the bloc, including revisiting the issue of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

The Survation poll showed 44.7 percent of people think Scotland should not conduct a second independence referendum, compared to 41.9 percent in favor of a fresh vote.

She hinted that the Scottish government could even use legal means to try to block Britain’s exit from the European Union, although experts said this was unlikely.

The House of Commons petitions committee said it had removed 77,000 which were “added fraudulently”, but asid it would be discussed by MPs at a meeting next week. In his first statement since Friday morning, “leave” leader and former London Mayor Boris Johnson used his column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper to urge unity and say “the negative consequences (of the vote) are being wildly overdone”.

Britain’s opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks over his shoulder before delivering a speech on immigration and Britain’s exit from the European Union, at the Maxwell Library in London, Saturday June 25, 2016.

Support for leaving the European Union was strong across northern England, the Midlands and Wales, including many areas that traditionally vote Labour. Many Labour lawmakers strongly backed “remain” and accuse the socialist Corbyn, a longtime critic of the European Union, of failing to rally party supporters behind staying in the bloc.

Seven members in the shadow cabinet resigned Sunday after Corbyn fired shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn overnight.

Benn’s dismissal was followed by the resignation of Labour health spokeswoman Heidi Alexander, who released a letter saying a change of leadership was needed. Corbyn has said he will not resign.