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Is Scotland free to leave the UK?

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Boris Johnson's 'The Bunker'

There was this idea that maybe he would try and get around Parliament by calling a general election. Some of the more radical people around Boris Johnson were urging him to do what some people would think is the unthinkable. So you've got this magic triangle of three elements of the British Constitution that came together to protect the Queen, because that was the most important element here. And they had secretive back channel communications for months to agree on these principles.

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