Richard Leonard says there is no support for a second referendum Jane Barlow/PAJeremy Corbyn will seek a mandate from voters to refuse a request from Holyrood for another independence referendum, the leader of Scottish Labour has said. Richard Leonard said that Labour would include a commitment to oppose a second referendum in its manifesto for the next election which some believe could take place within months. Before the referendum in 2014 unionists generally accepted that the SNP had won a right to hold a referendum because it had a majority at Holyrood with an explicit manifesto commitment for a vote. However, Mr Leonard said that the matter had been settled in 2014 and that there was now “no case” for a second referendum. Last week Mr Corbyn said that…

Source: The Times September 23, 2018 23:02 UTC