Brexit on a rocket to Mars, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has said. Speaking at the UK Liberal Democrat spring conference, Rennie said now is not the moment for the "long, divisive, argumentative, exhausting, all-consuming event" of another referendum on the issue.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has indicated such a vote could be held towards the end of this year if his party is re-elected at Holyrood in May.
But Rennie said the priority of the Liberal Democrats for the next five years will be to put recovery from the pandemic first.He said: "Reasonable people would agree, no matter what they think about independence, that this is not the moment for another referendum."But they see in the news that the SNP want a vote.
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