Scotland vote sets up new independence clash with London

was grounds for a fresh independence referendum, despite opposition from London.

But UK-wide newspapers had a different take, as The Sunday Telegraph declared"Sturgeon falls short of majority". Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the 2014 referendum where 55 per cent voted"no" should be a once in a generation event.Johnson said on Saturday that the SNP's aim of a second referendum was"irresponsible and reckless" while he wrote a public letter to Sturgeon asking her to"work together" in"Team UK".

He insisted in comments to the BBC that for all UK leaders including Sturgeon the priority is recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and claimed the country did not have time now for a"protracted conversation about the Constitution". The Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross claimed in a tweet that his party"stopped an SNP majority, stopped indyref2."

Scotland's stronger push for independence won backing from Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, who tweeted that Britain"must decide if their union is held together by legislation or consent".

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