Scotland to keep pressing for ‘gold standard’ independence referendum The Guardian
Nicola Sturgeon has not made formal request to UK Government to hold IndyRef2 since last election Daily Record
Indyref2 question could be tweaked to avoid legal row | HeraldScotland HeraldScotland
'Home rule' should be considered in Scottish independence debate, Labour MSP says The National
Scottish independence: 'Home rule' should be considered, says Labour MSP The Scotsman
Scotland to keep pressing for ‘gold standard’ independence referendum
SNP’s Angus Robertson says government will continue to push for repeat of 2014 referendum process
Nicola Sturgeon has not made formal request to UK Government to hold IndyRef2 since last election Daily Record
Indyref2 question could be tweaked to avoid legal row | HeraldScotland HeraldScotland
'Home rule' should be considered in Scottish independence debate, Labour MSP says The National
Scottish independence: 'Home rule' should be considered, says Labour MSP The Scotsman
Scotland to keep pressing for ‘gold standard’ independence referendum
SNP’s Angus Robertson says government will continue to push for repeat of 2014 referendum process
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| Angus Robertson (centre) has refused to comment on reports Nicola Sturgeon is planning to announce a ‘softer’ consultative referendum. Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty Images |
The Scottish government will continue to press for a repeat of the “gold standard” set by the 2014 independence referendum process, the constitution secretary, Angus Robertson, has said.
But he refused to comment on reports Nicola Sturgeon is planning to announce a “softer” consultative referendum in order to bypass Westminster’s ongoing refusal to grant Holyrood the powers to hold a legal vote.
Speaking on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show, Robertson said: “These are quite rightly, issues that would need to be announced in the Scottish parliament and first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that she intends to make such an update before the summer recess.
“I’m not going to be able to give you a sneak peek of that announcement, but what I would say is that the preferred route for everybody, given that we have precedent [in 2014], and it worked, [is a section 30 order granted by the UK government, transferring the necessary powers to Holyrood] ... If it was possible then, there’s no reason why it isn’t possible now. And it really is for those others who are seeking to block democracy to explain why that is.”
Robertson last week confirmed that the SNP government planned to hold a second referendum next October, as Sturgeon launched the first in a series of papers setting out a refreshed case for independence and trailed her plans for a legally secure alternative route to staging another vote, which is likely to result in lengthy challenges at the UK supreme court.
The Scottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, said after last week’s announcement he would boycott any “wildcat” referendum, but Sturgeon has always ruled out a Catalan-style poll.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Ciaran Martin, the former UK government constitution director who helped to agree the framework for the 2014 referendum, claimed senior SNP figures were considering a consultative route: “The talk in Edinburgh circles is of a clever legal wheeze where ‘softer’ legislation is drafted; perhaps rather than a referendum on independence, the bill is instead about something like asking the people of Scotland for a mandate to open independence negotiations with the UK. Something like this – often incorrectly described as an advisory referendum – might stand a better chance in court, though plenty of experts are sceptical.”
The UK government has consistently ruled out the prospect of granting a section 30 order, but Sturgeon believes she has an electoral mandate to deliver a referendum with or without Westminster’s agreement after the SNP won its fourth consecutive Holyrood election last May.
The 2014 referendum, which the no side won by 55% to 45%, was called after the then prime minister, David Cameron, agreed to provide a section 30 order because Alex Salmond, the then first minister, had won a landslide Holyrood election victory in 2011.
At the beginning of June, opposition parties urged the Scottish government to “come clean once and for all” about whether it had the power to legislate for a second referendum at Holyrood.
A limited selection of legal advice was published on Tuesday after a lengthy freedom of information battle with the Scotsman newspaper, but the key question of whether the SNP government has been advised that putting forward a bill for a second independence referendum is within the powers of the Scottish parliament was not included in the disclosure.
Nicola Sturgeon has not made formal request to UK Government to hold IndyRef2 since last election
The UK Government confirmed the Scottish Government has not lodged a request for a Section 30 Order, which would transfer the required powers.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a referendum in autumn next year (Image: PA)
Nicola Sturgeon has not made a formal request to the UK Government to hold an independence referendum since winning the Scottish election last year.
The First Minister launched a new drive for a breakaway vote last week.
She has said the referendum should take place in October next year if legal approval to stage it can be secured.
But the UK Government confirmed the Scottish Government has not lodged a request for a Section 30 Order, which would transfer the required powers.
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A source said: “The last time a request was submitted was in 2019. There has been nothing since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election and nothing since the First Minister’s press conference.”
When the Sunday Mail asked the Scottish Government why it had not yet sought an order, a spokesman refused to answer and instead directed us to a video of a press conference.
Sturgeon has accused opposition parties of “running scared” of the facts on independence.
The Scottish Government published a paper on Tuesday comparing the UK with countries which the FM claimed
are “wealthier, fairer and happier”.
She said: “The Tories and Labour have completely failed to engage with that point because they know it is true and because they can see how threadbare the case for continued Westminster rule over Scotland has become.
“They simply have no answer, so instead of engaging in that debate they prefer to engage in the politics of deflection, talking about issues of process when on the issues of substance the sands are shifting beneath their feet.
“The people of Scotland have secured a cast-iron democratic mandate to decide their own future – and neither Boris Johnson nor any other UK PM has the right to block that mandate.”
In her press conference, Sturgeon said she stood ready “to discuss the terms of” a Section 30 at any time with Johnson. But she didn’t address the fact no formal request for one had been made since 2019.
But he refused to comment on reports Nicola Sturgeon is planning to announce a “softer” consultative referendum in order to bypass Westminster’s ongoing refusal to grant Holyrood the powers to hold a legal vote.
Speaking on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show, Robertson said: “These are quite rightly, issues that would need to be announced in the Scottish parliament and first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that she intends to make such an update before the summer recess.
“I’m not going to be able to give you a sneak peek of that announcement, but what I would say is that the preferred route for everybody, given that we have precedent [in 2014], and it worked, [is a section 30 order granted by the UK government, transferring the necessary powers to Holyrood] ... If it was possible then, there’s no reason why it isn’t possible now. And it really is for those others who are seeking to block democracy to explain why that is.”
Robertson last week confirmed that the SNP government planned to hold a second referendum next October, as Sturgeon launched the first in a series of papers setting out a refreshed case for independence and trailed her plans for a legally secure alternative route to staging another vote, which is likely to result in lengthy challenges at the UK supreme court.
The Scottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, said after last week’s announcement he would boycott any “wildcat” referendum, but Sturgeon has always ruled out a Catalan-style poll.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Ciaran Martin, the former UK government constitution director who helped to agree the framework for the 2014 referendum, claimed senior SNP figures were considering a consultative route: “The talk in Edinburgh circles is of a clever legal wheeze where ‘softer’ legislation is drafted; perhaps rather than a referendum on independence, the bill is instead about something like asking the people of Scotland for a mandate to open independence negotiations with the UK. Something like this – often incorrectly described as an advisory referendum – might stand a better chance in court, though plenty of experts are sceptical.”
The UK government has consistently ruled out the prospect of granting a section 30 order, but Sturgeon believes she has an electoral mandate to deliver a referendum with or without Westminster’s agreement after the SNP won its fourth consecutive Holyrood election last May.
The 2014 referendum, which the no side won by 55% to 45%, was called after the then prime minister, David Cameron, agreed to provide a section 30 order because Alex Salmond, the then first minister, had won a landslide Holyrood election victory in 2011.
At the beginning of June, opposition parties urged the Scottish government to “come clean once and for all” about whether it had the power to legislate for a second referendum at Holyrood.
A limited selection of legal advice was published on Tuesday after a lengthy freedom of information battle with the Scotsman newspaper, but the key question of whether the SNP government has been advised that putting forward a bill for a second independence referendum is within the powers of the Scottish parliament was not included in the disclosure.
Nicola Sturgeon has not made formal request to UK Government to hold IndyRef2 since last election
The UK Government confirmed the Scottish Government has not lodged a request for a Section 30 Order, which would transfer the required powers.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a referendum in autumn next year (Image: PA)
Nicola Sturgeon has not made a formal request to the UK Government to hold an independence referendum since winning the Scottish election last year.
The First Minister launched a new drive for a breakaway vote last week.
She has said the referendum should take place in October next year if legal approval to stage it can be secured.
But the UK Government confirmed the Scottish Government has not lodged a request for a Section 30 Order, which would transfer the required powers.
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| The legal mechanism was negotiated between Alex Salmond and David Cameron in 2012 – two years before the 2014 referendum. |
'A source said: “The last time a request was submitted was in 2019. There has been nothing since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election and nothing since the First Minister’s press conference.”
When the Sunday Mail asked the Scottish Government why it had not yet sought an order, a spokesman refused to answer and instead directed us to a video of a press conference.
Sturgeon has accused opposition parties of “running scared” of the facts on independence.
The Scottish Government published a paper on Tuesday comparing the UK with countries which the FM claimed
are “wealthier, fairer and happier”.
She said: “The Tories and Labour have completely failed to engage with that point because they know it is true and because they can see how threadbare the case for continued Westminster rule over Scotland has become.
“They simply have no answer, so instead of engaging in that debate they prefer to engage in the politics of deflection, talking about issues of process when on the issues of substance the sands are shifting beneath their feet.
“The people of Scotland have secured a cast-iron democratic mandate to decide their own future – and neither Boris Johnson nor any other UK PM has the right to block that mandate.”
In her press conference, Sturgeon said she stood ready “to discuss the terms of” a Section 30 at any time with Johnson. But she didn’t address the fact no formal request for one had been made since 2019.
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| Scottish Government could tweak Indyref2 question to avoid legal row |
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| Alex Rowley claimed division and healing the nation cannot be solved by 'telling 50% of the population they are wrong' |
SCOTTISH Labour MSP Alex Rowley has called for “home rule” to be considered as part of the ongoing debate around a second independence referendum.
Rowley, who represents mid-Scotland and Fife said “all options” should be on the table as part of the ongoing debate around a second independence referendum, including devo max alongside yes and no options. Speaking to The Herald on Sunday, he claimed Scotland is currently in a “constitutional stalemate”.
“It results in poor government, rewards political parties for maintaining divisions, and we therefore have to find a way forward and settle the issue,” he said.
Rowley claimed division and healing the nation cannot be solved by “telling 50% of the population they are wrong”. “The way forward must be an open and civil debate that examines the issues and has all options on the table,” he said.
“My own view is the option of home rule must be considered as part of the debate but, regardless, the significant and material change since 2014 means the same binary choice is no longer on the table.”
However, the SNP MSP Rona MacKay hit back, stating that “no-one can trust” Scottish Labour to stick to their word.
MacKay said: “Scottish Labour made the same vow to Scotland in 2014 and then broke that promise. No-one can trust them to stick to their word this time. And no amount of constitutional tinkering would protect Scotland from the catastrophe of Brexit or the Tory created cost-of-living crisis.
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“The only way Scotland can escape corrosive Westminster control is with the full powers of independence. However, Alex Rowley clearly recognises Scotland’s right to choose its own future in a referendum so he should be demanding his boss, Anas Sarwar, dumps his Donald Trump policy of denying clear democratic election results delivered by the people of this country.”
Party leader Anas Sarwar has consistently ruled out backing a second referendum. When asked on the Sunday Show if he believed an independence referendum should be “categorically” ruled out over the next 10 years, he said: “We said right at the start of the election campaign that we believe the focus of this Parliament should be on our recovery and that’s why we didn’t support a referendum.
“On the principle of Scots having a right to choose, of course I believe that Scots have a right to choose. But basically, during term we should be focusing on recovery.”
Sarwar also stated he will be “setting out in a couple weeks’ time” his vision for alternatives to a second independence referendum, stating that Labour wants to demonstrate that “the next electoral context is going to be a general election”.
“[We want to show] what voting Labour in that general election means and what change looks like right across the United Kingdom, to what change looks like for people in Scotland”, Sarwar said.
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“Yes, the Tories are a disaster, yes I want to boot them out, yes I don’t agree with the priorities of the SNP – I think they’re a bad government here in Scotland – but we can’t wait for the public to want them to lose. We’ve got to serve them.”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, along with Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie, fired the starting gun on the indyref2 campaign last week as they launched a series of new documents making the case for an independent Scotland.
Sturgeon insisted a referendum will be held with or without a Section 30 order, while Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross vowed to boycott any “wildcat” ballot.
A recent Scottish Election Survey found that 55% of voters considered the results of the last election to be a mandate for indyref2, based on a neutral question.
Alex Rowley, who represents mid-Scotland and Fife in the Scottish Parliament, said “all options” should be on the table, including devo max alongside yes and no options.
He told The Herald on Sunday that Scotland was in a “constitutional stalemate” that was not sustainable.
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Rowley, who represents mid-Scotland and Fife said “all options” should be on the table as part of the ongoing debate around a second independence referendum, including devo max alongside yes and no options. Speaking to The Herald on Sunday, he claimed Scotland is currently in a “constitutional stalemate”.
“It results in poor government, rewards political parties for maintaining divisions, and we therefore have to find a way forward and settle the issue,” he said.
Rowley claimed division and healing the nation cannot be solved by “telling 50% of the population they are wrong”. “The way forward must be an open and civil debate that examines the issues and has all options on the table,” he said.
“My own view is the option of home rule must be considered as part of the debate but, regardless, the significant and material change since 2014 means the same binary choice is no longer on the table.”
However, the SNP MSP Rona MacKay hit back, stating that “no-one can trust” Scottish Labour to stick to their word.
MacKay said: “Scottish Labour made the same vow to Scotland in 2014 and then broke that promise. No-one can trust them to stick to their word this time. And no amount of constitutional tinkering would protect Scotland from the catastrophe of Brexit or the Tory created cost-of-living crisis.
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“The only way Scotland can escape corrosive Westminster control is with the full powers of independence. However, Alex Rowley clearly recognises Scotland’s right to choose its own future in a referendum so he should be demanding his boss, Anas Sarwar, dumps his Donald Trump policy of denying clear democratic election results delivered by the people of this country.”
Party leader Anas Sarwar has consistently ruled out backing a second referendum. When asked on the Sunday Show if he believed an independence referendum should be “categorically” ruled out over the next 10 years, he said: “We said right at the start of the election campaign that we believe the focus of this Parliament should be on our recovery and that’s why we didn’t support a referendum.
“On the principle of Scots having a right to choose, of course I believe that Scots have a right to choose. But basically, during term we should be focusing on recovery.”
Sarwar also stated he will be “setting out in a couple weeks’ time” his vision for alternatives to a second independence referendum, stating that Labour wants to demonstrate that “the next electoral context is going to be a general election”.
“[We want to show] what voting Labour in that general election means and what change looks like right across the United Kingdom, to what change looks like for people in Scotland”, Sarwar said.
READ MORE: English Labour should back Nicola Sturgeon on Scottish independence
“Yes, the Tories are a disaster, yes I want to boot them out, yes I don’t agree with the priorities of the SNP – I think they’re a bad government here in Scotland – but we can’t wait for the public to want them to lose. We’ve got to serve them.”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, along with Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie, fired the starting gun on the indyref2 campaign last week as they launched a series of new documents making the case for an independent Scotland.
Sturgeon insisted a referendum will be held with or without a Section 30 order, while Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross vowed to boycott any “wildcat” ballot.
A recent Scottish Election Survey found that 55% of voters considered the results of the last election to be a mandate for indyref2, based on a neutral question.
Alex Rowley, who represents mid-Scotland and Fife in the Scottish Parliament, said “all options” should be on the table, including devo max alongside yes and no options.
He told The Herald on Sunday that Scotland was in a “constitutional stalemate” that was not sustainable.
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