Nicola Sturgeon has accused Theresa May of sealing the fate of the United Kingdom after the prime minister rejected her demand for a second Scottish independence referendum before the Brexit talks conclude. Sturgeon said on Thursday: “It’s an argument for independence, really, in a nutshell, that Westminster thinks it has got the right to block the democratically elected mandate of the Scottish government and the majority in the Scottish parliament. Sturgeon predicted that May’s position would soon prove to be politically unsustainable. The Guardian view on May and Scotland: blame Brexit gambles | Editorial Read moreBut that changed unexpectedly on Thursday. “The first minister has made clear her preferred timescale and that is the timescale we’re working to,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 20:34 UTC