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Why there won’t be a Scottish independence poll this year

15 January 2020

12:50 AM

15 January 2020

12:50 AM

There will be no second referendum on Scottish independence this year. This is certain. And it is not because Boris Johnson has today told Nicola Sturgeon that, as expected, he is not minded to pass control of the UK constitution from Westminster to Holyrood – but because the people of Scotland are not yet demanding a referendum within Sturgeon’s preferred timetable.

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