who quit Nicola Sturgeon's party to join Alex Salmond's Alba in March, said both parties were in no rush to ask the electorate the big constitutional question.
The SNP leader has said she won't call a referendum until after the pandemic has ended but has made it clear she wants to see such a vote before the end of Holyrood's current five year term.
But MacAskill claimed the First Minister had effectively handed Boris Johnson a veto over whether an IndyRef2 could take place by asking Westminster for a Section 30 order, which temporarily hands Holyrood the power to call such a vote.
The Tory Prime Minister has made it clear he will not agree to another referendum and insists the result of the 2014 plebiscite should be respected.
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