Newsnight’s political editor nicholaswatt looks at the SNP’s four-point plan for achieving independence
- which would temporarily transfer the power to hold a referendum from Westminster to Holyrood, as happened ahead of the 2014 referendum which saw Scottish voters back remaining in the UK by 55% to 45%.But with Mr Johnson having repeatedly refused her calls for another referendum to be held, Ms Sturgeon added: "What I am not willing to do, what I will never do, is allow Scottish democracy to be a prisoner of Boris Johnson or any prime minister.
She said: "Let the opposition if they can make the case for continued Westminster rule and then let the people decide."The prime minister has repeatedly indicated that he does not believe a referendum should be held any time soon He added: "People across Scotland want to see both of their governments working together on the issues that matter to them.
He accused the first minster of "railroading" parliament into talking about the SNP's "obsession" with another independence vote.Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the SNP had asked people to vote for them in the last Scottish Parliament election on the basis that Covid recovery would be the party's top priority.
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