British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Thursday rejected calls for a second referendum on Scottish independence, despite an apparent surge in support for a breakaway.
Scots voted to maintain the status quo by 55 percent to 45 percent in 2014, in what even the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) agreed was a “once-in-a-generation” vote.
But spurred by tensions between London and Edinburgh over Britain’s departure from the European Union, and political and personal differences, the issue refuses to go away.
Polling now suggests a majority of Scots are in favour of going it alone, and breaking up the more than three-centuries-old union with England.
Conservative party leader and British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, reaffirmed that the UK parliament would not approve powers for the Scottish Parliament to hold a new vote.
On a visit to Orkney, off Scotland’s far northeast coast, the British PM said, “The union is a fantastically strong institution. It has helped us through thick and thin, What people really want to do is to see our whole country coming back stronger, together, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
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