Boris Johnson has given a useless pan response to Nicola Sturgeon’s try and stage an independence referendum in October 2023.
The Prime Minister appeared decided to not set himself up as punchbag for independence as he answered questions on the referendum plans.
Requested if he would block plans for a referendum, Johnson answered: “Let’s put it this fashion, our plans higher economic system works higher when the UK is collectively than when it is isn’t collectively.”
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Talking whereas travelling to the Nato summit, the PM took a diplomatic tone, and added: “Let’s see what she has to say about it. The purpose I’d make is that we predict the primary precedence for the nation is the financial pressures.
"Our plans for a stronger economic system means we predict we’re are stronger working collectively. We've good relations with the Scottish Authorities, let’s see what she has to say."
After the First Minister’s speech the Prime Minister’s spokesman mentioned Downing Road would “rigorously examine” the Scottish Authorities’s proposal.
A No 10 spokesman mentioned: “Our place stays unchanged that each ours and the Scottish Authorities’s precedence needs to be working along with a relentless concentrate on the problems that we all know matter to individuals up and down the nation.
“That is still our precedence, however a call has been taken by the First Minister, so we are going to rigorously examine the small print of the proposal, and the Supreme Court docket will now contemplate whether or not to simply accept the Scottish Authorities’s Lord Advocate referral."
Requested whether or not the Prime Minister would open negotiations for independence in Scotland if Scots vote for it in a referendum in October 2023, the official mentioned: “We’re clearly not going to get into hypotheticals”.
The spokesman was undecided whether or not Johnson had acquired a letter from Nicola Sturgeon, however mentioned the Prime Minister “continues to assume it’s not the time to be speaking a few referendum, however as I say, it’s vital that we rigorously examine the small print of the proposal and it’s for the Supreme Court docket now to take a look at the Lord Advocate referral”.
Labours Shadow Scottish Secretary was much less diplomatic.
Ian Murray MP mentioned Sturgeon’s push for an independence referendum in 2023 will maintain the Conservative Celebration in energy on the subsequent normal election.
Scotland’s solely Labour MP tweeted: “She’s given the sport away.”
“The FM says ‘we should rid our nation of this Tory govt’, However we are going to use the subsequent normal election to maintain them in energy.”
“Scottish politics is paralysed and this useless cat (independence referendum) technique is to deflect from this FM’s appalling document in authorities.”
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