Scotland’s Sturgeon says second referendum ‘highly likely’

Most analysts dismiss that prospect.

It should be “the cornerstone of the negotiations with the EU” and it was “crucial” that London, Scotland and Northern Ireland had “a voice” in those discussions, Khan said.

“I want to make it absolutely clear today that I intend to take all possible steps and explore all options to give effect to how people in Scotland voted – in other words, to secure our continuing place in the European Union and in the single market in particular”, said Sturgeon, who was flanked by the European Union and Scottish flags.

But a second referendum, she said, was now “highly likely”.

Speaking at her official residence, Bute House in Edinburgh, she said: “I intend to take all possible steps and explore all possible options to give effect to how people in Scotland voted – in other words to secure our continuing place in the European Union, and in the single market in particular”.

The unionist side won the referendum by 55 percent.

Ms Dugdale said: ” We both have profound disagreements about the constitutional future of Scotland but I stand ready to work with her in the best interests of the people of Scotland.

In a statement she said: “Like the first minister I want to see stability prioritised in the days ahead”.

“Clearly they’ve misled the Scottish people”, he said.

Meanwhile, nationalist leaders in Northern Ireland have strengthened calls for the nation to leave the U.K. and unite with their southern neighbor, the Republic of Ireland.

In Belfast, Irish republicans Sinn Fein called for a referendum on Irish reunification.

Nathan Jones has backed his Welsh countrymen to beat Northern Ireland in this evening’s European Championship Battle of Britain last-16 tie and set up a quarter final with Belgium.

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the impact in Northern Ireland would be “very profound” and that the whole island of Ireland should now be able to vote on reunification. “There’d be at least some media support this time, at least some support from big business, and of course from the 62% of Scots who just said they don’t want thrown out of Europe”, Campbell told Sputnik. “There is no such evidence”. There would then be a two-year window for Britain to negotiate the terms of its exit and execute it. “That’s where our focus is”. Prime minister David Cameron announced his plans for the UK’s European Union referendum a couple of months later. In 2014, Scotland voted 55.3 to 44.7 percent to stay in the United Kingdom.

“I believe any further referendums, with particular reference to the status of Northern Ireland, or otherwise, would in the circumstances be most unhelpful”.

Within hours, however, two of the main campaign promises – lower immigration and a hotly disputed disputed claim there would be an extra £350m a week to spend on the NHS – were disowned by high-profile Leave politicians.

In a historic referendum result, the Leave campaign scored a narrow victory, with early surprise results in the north east of England hitting the Remain campaign’s hopes hard. Whereas another Leave campaigner, Labour’s Gisela Stuart stated that the United Kingdom would be a “good neighbour” when it left the EU. Sinn Fein’s overarching goal is to overturn the 1921 division of the island, when Irish rebels in the south fought a successful war of independence from the United Kingdom but pro-British Protestants anchored in industrial Belfast received a new northern state that remained within the United Kingdom.

“The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered”.

Scotland’s only UKIP MEP David Coburn said it was “fantastic” that “we’re out”. “I do have great concerns about the future”.

Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, called on the country to have its own European Union referendum in light of Britain’s successful Leave campaign.