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Keir Starmer rules out Labour support for second independence referendum in age of Covid

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Labour leader said: "Given the damage and division this would cause, no responsible First Minister should contemplate it and no responsible Prime Minister would grant it." There are inevitable demands for a re-run vote if the SNP win an independence majority in May's Scottish elections.

But Starmer’s rejection was conditional, saying "there should not be another independence referendum while our economic and health outlook is so precarious nor until there has been a proper assessment of the costs, consequences and uncertainties of separation".In the previously delayed speech outlining “a positive alternative to the Scottish people” Starmer decried a decade of Tory government failures that have “eroded the fabric of the United.

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