POLITICO: Scotland will consider independence vote after Brexit clarity, says Sturgeon

18 May 2018

Nicola Sturgeon said she will consider another vote on Scottish independence when Westminster offers greater certainty on Brexit.

“Once we get some clarity, which hopefully we will in autumn of this year, about the Brexit outcome and the future relationship between the U.K and the EU, then I will consider again the question of the timing of an independence referendum,” Scotland’s first minister said on ITV’s Peston on Sunday program.

Sturgeon also said her Scottish National Party would not block a vote on any Brexit final deal, but worried about what would happen if the different parts of the U.K voted for different outcomes in the same way they did in 2016.

In the Brexit referendum, Scotland voted in favor of the U.K staying in the EU by 62 percent to 38 percent. [...]

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