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By Glenn Campbell
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The only way for there to be a successful referendum on Scottish independence is if both sides agree.
That s how they did it in 2014 with the Edinburgh agreement and the alternatives are messy and risky for both sides.
If the current stand-off between Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson cannot be resolved, the first minister intends - at some point - to pass a referendum bill at Holyrood.
She dares the UK government to challenge the legislation in court which it may feel obliged to do because it considers such a vote to be beyond devolved powers.
Gove refuses to rule out legal action over Indyref2 MICHAEL Gove has refused to rule out the UK Government taking legal action to stop Holyrood holding a second independence referendum without Westminster’s consent. The Cabinet Office minister, who is in Scotland this week, twice refused to give a straight answer on the point in a briefing with journalists. On Sunday, Mr Gove gave a series of ambiguous answers to the question on TV shows, saying he didn’t want to discuss the possibility of a Supreme Court challenge. Asked point blank today if he was ruling out a challenge, he dismissed the issue as “theorising” and “abstract debate” and tried to change the subject, but did not deny it was a possibility.
Scottish independence referendum row will suck the oxygen out of covid recovery
Tory Minister Michael Gove is camped out in a UK Government office in Glasgow to talk up co-operation on covid recovery and dismiss a referendum as an unwanted distraction .
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The SNP wants to hold another referendum on independence in the second half of the new parliamentary term (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
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SNP deputy calls for Indyref2 at earliest possible opportunity THE SNP’s depute leader has said a second independence referendum should happen at the “earliest possible opportunity”. Keith Brown said the country should vote again on whether to leave the Union as soon as it was safe to do so in light of the Covid pandemic. Mr Brown also suggested a referendum could happen even if Boris Johnson tried to block it, and the UK Supreme Court struck down unilateral Holyrood legislation for Indyref2. Nicola Sturgeon said this morning that legislation could be introduced in Holyrood as soon as next spring, given the improving Covid and economic picture.