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The SNP led by Ms Sturgeon have pushed for a second independence vote ever since Brexit was voted for in 2016. Support for Scottish secession has grown in the last 12 months, will polls consistently showing more than 50 percent of Scots want to leave the UK. Ms Sturgeon wants Scotland to join the EU, but faced pushback when former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said it would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible in 2014. But in more recent y
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Polls coming out of Scotland indicate a significant surge in pro-independence feeling, with surveys in the latter half of 2020 consistently putting a Yes vote ahead. The Scottish First Minister said late last year that she would aim to secure a vote in 2021. Nicola Sturgeon said in November: We are seeing across the Atlantic, what happens to those who try to hold back the tide of democracy. They get swept away. The point about whether the Westminster Government has to a
“We didn’t vote for it up here, and it feels like England is pulling us out of Europe regardless of the consequences. It’s made me realize that the differences between the two countries might be more than skin-deep, so I’m definitely weighing up whether Scotland is safer going in a different direction.”
EU membership hurdles
But while Brexit has undoubtedly invigorated the nationalist cause, it also presents challenges. In 2014, the SNP’s argument was greatly simplified by Britain’s European Union membership: An independent Scotland would simply rejoin, and by virtue of England’s place in the European community, border issues would be moot.
Brexit: Scottish independence back in the spotlight
As the United Kingdom inches closer to a no-deal Brexit, the arguments around independence in pro-EU Scotland are gathering pace.
With Brexit talks sputtering, though not quite dead, the specter of tariffs, travel restrictions, and towering economic uncertainty looms large over Europe. From Berlin to Brussels, Belfast and beyond, leaders are scrambling to shore up no-deal contingencies, finessing plans many hoped would never see the light of day.
Yet, in one corner of the continent, a quiet sense of satisfaction simmers.
Officially, Scotland s pro-independence government wants an agreement: The country s exporters are as exposed to economic turbulence as any. But there s little doubt the collapse of negotiations would aid a secessionist narrative four years in the making.
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Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon has previously ruled out Scotland joining the eurozone if it were to secede from the UK and start a new chapter in the EU. Now that the UK has left the bloc, Scottish independence would leave the country outside of both unions, leaving many to wonder what would happen to its currency. Asked last year if Scotland would change to the euro, Ms Sturgeon said: No, I don t think it would. She added: No we wouldn t and there