Top UK court mulls legal basis for new Scottish independence vote

Presenting her case to the court, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain on Tuesday said: “The issue of Scottish independence is alive and a significant one in Scottish electoral politics.”

Her Scottish National Party ran in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary elections on a promise to hold a legally valid referendum after the COVID-19 crisis subsided.for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in Nigeria & world news, business, politics, sports and pop culture. “But Westminster has no such respect. That means this issue was always destined to end up in court sooner or later – better, in my view, that it is sooner,” she said.

New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss in a television interview this month reiterated her view that the last referendum in 2014 was a once-in-a-generation event.UK Scottish Secretary Alister Jack told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that “people in Scotland want their governments to be working together on the issues that affect them, rather than focusing on another referendum”, Truss’s spokesman said.

But the UK government argues that Scotland cannot act unilaterally in a “reserved” matter concerning the constitutional makeup of the UK as a whole, where the government in London holds sway. Supreme Court President Robert Reed, one of five judges hearing two days of arguments, said their decision is expected to take “some months”.

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