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SNP options for 2nd self-rule vote
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Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon will include triggers for a second independence referendum in the party鈥檚 manifesto for the 2016 Scottish election, she said in an interview with the Sunday Herald newspaper.
British Prime Minister David Cameron in May ruled out another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by the Scottish National Party in that month鈥檚 election, saying Scots had 鈥渆mphatically鈥 rejected a breakaway last year.
Scots voted 55-45 percent against independence in a September 2014 referendum but the May 7 general election saw the SNP take 56 of Scotland鈥檚 59 seats in the Westminster parliament.
鈥淥ur manifesto will set out what we think around the circumstances in which, and the possible timescales in which, a second referendum might be appropriate,鈥 Sturgeon told the paper in an interview. 鈥淚t will then be down to people to accept whether they vote for that manifesto.鈥
Citing sources close to Sturgeon, the newspaper reported the trigger list would be limited but could include a general option allowing for a referendum in the event of a dramatic, unforeseeable event such as Cameron embarking on what they termed an illegal war.
A vote to divide England and Scotland would amount to the break-up of the United Kingdom, the world鈥檚 fifth largest economy.
When asked for comment on the Sunday Herald report, a spokesman for Cameron said: 鈥淭he people of Scotland voted to remain part of the United Kingdom last year and we will see through our commitments to give them the extra powers.鈥
Another go?
Sturgeon has previously said there could only be another independence vote if Scots voted for a party which proposed one in a Scottish parliamentary election.
Scottish elections are due in May 2016 but so far Sturgeon has refused to say directly whether she would include a referendum pledge in her manifesto.
After Jeremy Corbyn was elected as the new leader of the opposition Labour Party on Saturday, Sturgeon cautioned that if his party failed to show swiftly it could beat Cameron鈥檚 Conservatives in the next national election then desire for Scottish independence would rise.
鈥淚f Labour cannot quickly demonstrate that they have a credible chance of winning the next UK general election, many more people in Scotland are likely to conclude that independence is the only alternative to continued Tory (Conservative) government,鈥 the SNP leader said.
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