Is Scotland free to leave the UK?
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What's the Constitutional and Legal Route to an Independence Referendum?
I'm not aware of anyone in the SMP who wouldn't want independence yesterday. There isn't a quote as you put at an extreme wing who wants us to go faster and do difficult things. Whatever it is we do, must be legal, must be democratic, and must be constitutional. The Supreme Court today did answer two questions. We can't have a referendum without Section 30 transfer from Westminster. Now that does not close down the referendum route, because in the past the UK government has recognised the Democratic mandate to hold a referendum and granted that power. So what we need to do now is look extraordinarily carefully at the findings,. As the first minister has made clear, we will run
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