SNP leader says government accepts it cannot stop referendum if there is majority for independence in Scottish elections
The UK government accepts that if there is a majority for independence in May’s Holyrood elections it cannot continue to stand in the way of a second independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon has suggested.
Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists’ Association, the SNP leader and first minister said: “I strongly suspect, based on some of what I hear that is under discussion in the depths of the Tory party and Whitehall at the moment, that they know an independence referendum is coming.”
