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FM Sturgeon Confirms Restart To Work On IndyRef2, Vote By End 2023

SCOTLAND

Delivering her administration's Programme for Government in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms that her gov't will restart work on a prospectus for independence and states that, COVID-19 permitting, she will seek a second independence referendum by end-2023.

  • Sturgeon: the "democratic mandate to decide the country's future is beyond question".
  • Over the summer Sturegon's Scottish National Party (SNP) formalised a working agreement with the environmentalist Greens (also a pro-independence party) to create a set pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament.

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