Sunday political interviews round-up: Salmond claims May ‘will crumble’ over IndyRef2

Alex Salmond – Theresa May ‘will crumble’ over Scottish referendum

Despite Parliament having retired this week, the political debate rages on. Alex Salmond appeared on the Andrew Marr show to offer his take on the circumstances of a second referendum on Scottish independence. He remained defiant that it would still take place despite Theresa May’s statement that ‘now is not the time’.

‘The Theresa May line… “Now is not the time” is not going to stand. Back in the day I remember David Cameron telling me there wasn’t going to be a Scottish referendum, but that didn’t last against the democratic wishes of the Scottish people and the Scottish Parliament and neither will the Theresa May line. It won’t necessarily crumble today or tomorrow or next week but over the next few months that line will crumble.’

Salmond did concede however, that ‘the right time for the second referendum is when the Brexit deal is known, and therefore that can be compared against the prospect of an independent Scotland in Europe’.