Mr Starmer said leaders across the UK had a "shared duty" to "rebuild together" after Covid-19. Ms Sturgeon has said if she wins the Holyrood election she will try to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence early in the next term of the Scottish Parliament. To show that you don't have to choose between a broken status quo and the uncertainty and divisiveness of separatism. “It would be entirely the wrong priority to hold another Scottish independence referendum in the teeth of the deepest recession for 300 years. "Scottish Labour won't work with unionist parties to stop the nationalists, and they won't stand up to Nicola Sturgeon's demand for another independence referendum as early as next year.

Source: Daily Mirror December 21, 2020 14:02 UTC