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“In my experience, direct experience, referenda in this country are not very fun events,” the prime minister told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show. “They have no remarkable unifying effect on the mood of the nation and must be celebrated once in a generation.”
In 2014, the majority of Scots voted to keep Scotland as part of the UK. Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said at the time it was a once-in-a-generation vote, but now says Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, which most Scots did not support, has fundamentally changed. the situation.
Recent public opinion polls show that a stable proportion of people are in favor of Scottish independence. Disagreements over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in London and individual parts of the UK are increasing the ranks of supporters.
“For too long the UK government has led Scotland one after another in the wrong direction, culminating in Brexit,” Sturgeon wrote on the SNP website on Saturday. “No wonder so many people in Scotland are already in trouble.”
“We did not want to leave and we hope to be able to join soon as an equal partner,” he said in a message to the European Union.
Johnson rejects the possibility of a new referendum. But Sturgeon is likely to win a mandate and increase the pressure on the UK prime minister if her party performs well in the upcoming Scottish parliamentary elections.
When asked why it was fair to hold a referendum on EU membership but not a new referendum on Scottish independence, Johnson told Andrew Marr: “The difference is that we held a European referendum in 1975 and then we did it again. celebrate in 2016. That seems like a good time. “
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