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Nicola Sturgeon dodges question on whether independence referendum could take place this year
First Minister sidestepped a question about an early referendum by saying she would use the event to talk about coronavirus.Sturgeon has said she supports indyref2 in the early part of the next Holyrood term, but MP Ian Blackford believes it could take place even earlier.Speaking to the PA news agency, Blackford said: “Of course what I would say is that the first priority of the Government is dealing with the Covid crisis, it’s about keeping people safe, it’s about the acceleration that we’ve seen with the vaccine programme, it’s about taking off the measures of lockdown as and when we can.“But we do that based on data, we do that based on evidence, we do that based on keeping people safe.“When we’ve got to that position of safety, that