Sturgeon To Request New Referendum on Scottish Independence

Ms O’Neill’s call for a referendum came as Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she will ask for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.

The Scottish First Minister called for a second vote on Monday after 55.3 per cent of the nation chose to remain part of the United Kingdom in September 2014.

Michelle O’Neill, Sinn Fein’s leader in the region, said the United Kingdom government was “on the verge of triggering Article 50 that is going to take the North out of the European Union against the expressed wishes of the majority of people here”.

Adams, who was banned from speaking on British airwaves at the height of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, forcing broadcasters to dub his voice with that of an actor, said Brexit had already begun to shift opinions on the subject of Irish unity.

In the first referendum for Scottish independence, people ended up shocking Sturgeon by voting to remain in within Great Britain.

In the wake of the Brexit vote, Sturgeon said she sought greater powers for the Scottish Parliament and the right to remain in the EU’s single-market system, even if the United Kingdom does not. Sturgeon said her preferred time frame for a new vote would be in the autumn of 2018 or the spring of 2019, when the terms of a British exit from the bloc would be clearer.

“All of our efforts at compromise have been met with a brick wall of intransigence”.

But rejecting Sturgeon’s request would likely only energise the Scottish nationalists’ cause and is a major headache for May as she enters Brexit negotiations with the other 27 European Union member states.

He said: “Catalonia is for the Spanish Government really a nightmare and they try to void everything that is related with the possibility of becoming independent Catalonia, so it’s totally impossible”.

Waiting until the last week of March would not only avoid a clash with the Dutch general election on Wednesday, but also delay the start of negotiations until after a special summit of the remaining 27 in Rome on 25 March to celebrate the EU’s 60th anniversary. She said she would seek approval in the Scottish parliament next week for another referendum and secure the country’s future membership of the EU.

“But let’s be absolutely clear, I do not think there should be another referendum, I think that independence would be economically catastrophic for many people in Scotland”.

“It sets Scotland on a course for more uncertainty and division”.

In a Belfast interview with Sky News, Foster insisted she would not quit as party leader but could allow another leading Democratic Unionist to be nominated in her place as first minister if her colleagues want to back an alternative.

Nicola Sturgeon’s bid to seek the legal authority to allow Holyrood to stage such a referendum will be voted on by MSPs next Wednesday.