Scoxit? Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland ‘cannot be imprisoned in the UK’
SNP leader claims PM’s refusal of second Scottish referendum shows contempt for democracy
Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that Scotland cannot be “imprisoned in the UK against its will” and warned that Boris Johnson’s continued refusal to grant her the powers to hold a second referendum can only increase support for Scottish independence.
Speaking on BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, the SNP leader and Scotland’s first minster said: “It really is such a subversion of democracy that you’re talking to the leader of the party that overwhelmingly won the election [in Scotland], and I’m under pressure to say what I’m doing because the mandate that I won is not going to be honoured by the party that got roundly defeated in Scotland. It is just such perversion and subversion of democracy that it will not hold.”