Election win should trigger Scottish independence, says Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon has said that Scotland could become independent of the UK if the SNP were to win a majority of votes in a general election.

She said that she “hoped” that the vote would take place in the setting of a referendum, but that if this was not allowed by the UK government, that the next general election would act as a ‘de-facto’ vote for independence.

This follows Dominic Raab’s statement that a vote of independence for Scotland was unlikely, because it is “not the right time.”

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