UK: Scottish independence: Referendum demand ‘will be rejected’

The UK government is to reject calls for a Scottish independence referendum before Brexit after Theresa May said “now is not the time”. The prime minister said the focus should be on getting the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said Nicola Sturgeon’s demand for a vote […]

The UK government is to reject calls for a Scottish independence referendum before Brexit after Theresa May said “now is not the time”.
The prime minister said the focus should be on getting the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said Nicola Sturgeon’s demand for a vote by the spring of 2019 would be rejected “conclusively”.
Ms Sturgeon said blocking a referendum would be a “democratic outrage”.
Ms Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, said: “It is an argument for independence really in a nutshell, that Westminster thinks it has got the right to block the democratically elected mandate of the Scottish government and the majority in the Scottish Parliament.
“You know history may look back on today and see it as the day the fate of the union was sealed.”