Scotland’s government will next year start formal preparations for a second referendum on independence from the UK that it wants to hold before the end of 2023, the country’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday.
Her comments, in the closing speech to her Scottish National party’s conference, set the stage for a heightened constitutional stand-off with the UK government.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted his administration in London would not approve a rerun of the 2014 referendum in which Scottish voters backed staying in the UK by 55 to 45 per cent.
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