Sturgeon says second indy referendum will happen post Brexit
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she thinks another Scottish independence referendum is going to happen, once the course of Brexit has been determined.
Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, she said: “Nothing in this life is absolutely inevitable but I think it’s as inevitable as it’s possible to be.”
She refused to set a more detailed plan of when she wants to see a re-run of the independence vote, because of the current uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
She said: “Before I set a path forward for Scotland I think it’s reasonable for me to know what the starting point of that journey is going to be and the context in which we are going to be embarking on it.
“We need to know, and hopefully we will know this over the next few days and the next three weeks.
“Is the UK leaving the EU? Is it leaving with a deal? Is it leaving with no deal? Or is it not leaving at all, perhaps looking at another referendum.”
“Scotland shouldn’t have to choose between the UK market… and the EU single market, which is eight times bigger”
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Scottish independence
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— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 24, 2019
The Brexit negotiations have made the case for Scottish independence “very powerfully”, she said, because she feels Scotland has been “ignored” throughout the process.
In the event of Scotland voting for independence, Nicola Sturgeon would want the country to re-join the EU.
She said: “I would want to see an independent Scotland re-join the EU. One of the big ironies is in the independence referendum those who were against Scottish independence said you can’t have independence because you will be thrown out of the European Union. What an irony that not too much further on we will be taken out against our will.”
Good turnout at Indy Rally George Sq lovely to bump into old friends pic.twitter.com/tMQQ2VNAP5
— Sandra White (@SandraWhiteSNP) March 24, 2019
Her comments came on the same day that thousands took to the streets in Glasgow for a pro-independence rally, among them the controversial campaigner Tommy Sheridan.
Sandra White, SNP MSP for Glasgow Kelvin tweeted from the event that it was a “good turnout” and “lovely to bump into old friends.”
