Boris Johnson has said it would be âirresponsible and recklessâ to hold a second independence referendum as the possibility of an outright majority in the Holyrood elections for the Scottish Nationalist party remains on a knife-edge on Saturday morning.
With an SNP victory now assured after the first day of counting, the scene is set for a clash with Downing Street as the partyâs leader, Nicola Sturgeon, warned Mr Johnson that he would âhave to go to courtâ to stop her new government introducing legislation for another referendum.
But as Ms Sturgeon said she would do so âwhen the time is rightâ if a pro-independence majority is achieved once the rest of the results are declared, Mr Johnson told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: âI think a referendum in the current context is irresponsible and reckless.â
A furious Boris Johnson was grilled by the leaders of British opposition parties during parliamentary questions on Wednesday amid a row over a €70,000 refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.
The UK s prime minister faced MPs on the day that the country’s electoral commission launched an investigation into whether Conservative Party donors paid for the work. If they had, the cost should have been declared under Britain’s law on political donations.
Dominic Cummings, a former aide to Johnson who left his job in 2020, has claimed that the prime minister wanted to get Conservative donors to fund the renovation of the apartment, which he currently lives in with his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, and their baby son, Wilfred.
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Follow RT on The SNP and its leader Nicola Sturgeon can t stop blaming the English for all their country’s woes, from Covid to poverty to failing schools – because the fault really lies with the dismal SNP government itself.
This week, Scotland s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon again attracted headlines for basically telling English people not to come to Scotland for fear of spreading Covid. While Sturgeon would no doubt pass this off as a sensible measure to combat the pandemic, the reality is that a latent and divisive anti-English sentiment underpins the SNP s core message in favour of independence.