Anyone who tunes into Prime Minister’s Questions these days ought to be prepared to hear the issue of Scottish independence raised multiple times. Since winning seats in the snap election from the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems, SNP MPs have been keen to say that the case for IndyRef2 has never been stronger However, Boris Johnson takes a different view. The Prime Minister has said he will not give permission for a second independence referendum – and has rejected Nicola Sturgeon’s request.
So, is IndyRef2 off the cards while Johnson resides in No. 10? I put this to Joanna Cherry – the SNP’s Justice and Home Affairs spokesperson – on the latest episode of The Spectator‘s Women with Balls podcast. Cherry – who worked on the successful Article 50 and prorogation legal challenges against the government – suggests that there could also be a legal route to a second independence referendum:
‘I think what we’ve learned from the constitutional litigation that has arisen from the Brexit situation is that in both the Article 50 case that I was involved in and the prorogation case is that the British constitution is a bit more complex than what some people understood it to be which was that Westminster can pretty much do what it likes.There’s
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