England’s Supreme Court rejects Scotland holding a new independence referendum unless London approves, local media reports.
Presiding Judge Robert Reed argued that the statute created Scottish parliament in 1999 established that this it does not have the power to legislate over areas of the Constitution, including the union between Scotland and England.
Thus, the judge indicated that the referendum bill put forward by the Scottish Government addresses a matter that falls within the competence of the UK Parliament. In this sense, if Britain does not agree, Scotland does not have the power to hold a referendum.
Disappointment
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeonadmitted that although he was “disappointed”, “respect the decision of the British Supreme Court”. “He doesn’t make laws, he just interprets them,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Scottish First Minister Hope hold another plebiscite in October 2023 to raise the question of whether the country should secede from Britain.
Scotland organized a referendum in 2014 with the authorization of London, but the majority of the population opposed independence. Two years later, Britain voted in favor of Brexit and the Scottish National Party (SNP) held that in that plebiscite a majority of Scots expressed their willingness to remain in the European Union.
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