Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
is warning that a future United Kingdom referendum on leaving the
European Union could spark a new drive for independence in pro-EU
Scotland.
Sturgeon called on Tuesday for a
“double-majority” system in the 2017 referendum that would require the
support of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland before the
United Kingdom could leave the EU.
Sturgeon warned in a speech in Brussels at
the European Policy Centre that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s
“in-out” referendum to be decided by a simple majority of Britons “would
provoke a strong backlash.”
Aa vote for Britain to leave the EU would
unleash a ‘groundswell of anger’ in Scotland that could stoke fresh
clamour to break away from England.
Sturgeon said “the groundswell of anger
among many ordinary people in Scotland in these circumstances could
produce a clamor for another independence referendum that may well be
unstoppable.”
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