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Is Scotland free to leave the UK?

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Is There a De Facto Referendum on Brexit?

You have no power to determine that the next general election is a de facto referendum at all. That's just nonsense. You can't just declare that something is ade facto referendum, the other parties won't accept that. Well, they may not accept it, but let me put it to you this way: when the Conservatives put in the manifesto, there was going to be a referendum on Brexit. They held that referendum. But wait, that wasn't a de factondum. No, no. That was a manifesto pledge which delivered a referendum. And if we get majority, we're leaving. How would your party have responded to? Oh, I think we would have responded rather angrily

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