Nicola Sturgeon has failed to learn a key lesson from Brexit

Nicola Sturgeon is busy demanding a second referendum on whether Scotland should leave the UK. Boris Johnson should ignore her. And the last few years of British politics shows exactly why.

If there is one lesson that Brexit has taught the country since the referendum, it is that if the public are to be asked questions of national importance, then the details ought to be properly spelled out beforehand. We now have an idea of what Brexit means: with the whole country leaving the EU’s single market and customs union, the end of the jurisdiction of the ECJ, but with Northern Ireland more closely aligned in areas of the economy with the Republic of Ireland than Great Britain in order to avoid a hard border.

Nicola Sturgeon knows this. She’s spent three years decrying the lack of detail in the Brexit position of the government, in what was put to the people and it’s a large part of how she span the need for a second referendum.