If the separatists win, Scotland will withdraw from the European Union.
Johnson said on Sunday that the Scottish government has a democratic mandate to win Scottish independence after pro-independence forces won a majority in the recent Scottish Parliament elections. John Sweeney Scottish Prime Minister, according to MTI.
“The only way to eliminate the devastating Scottish consequences of ending the British Union,” Sweeney, leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, which governs Scotland, said on the Sunday program of the BBC’s Political Magazine: “The only way to eliminate the devastating Scottish consequences of ending the British Union.” European Union membership (Brexit) is with Scottish independence. . The Scottish Prime Minister confirmed the Scottish Government's position that the London government forced Scotland to leave the European Union against its stated will, and this justifies the need for another independence referendum.
Sweeney alluded to the fact that in the referendum on Britain's membership in the European Union held in 2016, a narrow majority of participants, 51.89%, voted to leave, while 62% of Scots voted to remain. Since then, the SNP has regularly stated that a new independence referendum has become necessary, as London forced Scotland to leave the EU despite its clearly stated intention to remain.
On a BBC program on Sunday, the Scottish Prime Minister claimed that pro-independence forces won a majority in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary elections, meaning that Scottish voters gave the Scottish government a democratic mandate to pursue the political program aimed at independence. John Swinney has given an evasive answer to a question about the fate of the policy if the Scottish National Party does not win a majority of Scotland's seats in the House of Commons in London in Britain's national parliamentary elections scheduled for July 4.
Scotland has 59 seats in the House of Representatives of the British Parliament, which consists of 650 members, and in the previous parliament that was dissolved after the July elections, 43 of them were held by representatives of the Scottish National Party. But according to the results of public opinion polls, Britain's largest opposition force, Labour, will lead significantly in Scotland in next month's elections at the expense of the Scottish National Party.
In the middle of this week, Sweeney presented the Scottish National Party's election programme, in which, in addition to the goal of holding a new independence referendum, it was stated that if Scotland gained its independence, it would return to the European Union. As an independent country.
The Labor Party, which according to opinion polls is expected to win the British parliamentary elections scheduled for July 4th by a large majority, does not support Scotland's ambitions for independence or Great Britain's return to the European Union. (MTI)
