UK Government will not stand in the way of an independence referendum forever, according to Boris Johnson’s most senior Scottish cabinet minister.
Michael Gove – who heads Downing Street’s so-called Union Unit – said that if there is a “settled will” for a rerun of the 2014 vote, then “one will occur”.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mail, the Aberdeen-born MP insisted First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “knows” people want her to focus on Covid recovery.But in the clearest indication yet that the Tories wouldn’t stand in the way of consistent opinion polls showing majority support for independence, Gove said: “The principle that the people of Scotland, in the right circumstances, can ask that question again is there. “I just don’t.
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