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After two men were seized in a dawn raid, “growing numbers of peaceful protesters surrounded a Home Office van”. One demonstrator “crawled underneath and prevented it from transporting the detainees”, Politico reports.
Following an all-day stand-off, during which a number of scuffles broke out between protesters and police officers, the two men, both Indian nationals who have lived in Scotland for 10 years, were released. The front page of The National this morning read: “Glasgow 1, ‘Team UK’ 0”
‘No one is illegal’
The demonstration began when “hundreds of demonstrators descended on Kenmure Street” in Glasgow as “UK Border Force officials apparently attempted to deport a pair of men from a property there on Thursday morning”, The Scotsman reports.
Tom Harris
Tom Harris is a former Labour MP and sometime spinner who survived the heights and depths of the Blair-Brown era. After serving as a minister in the Department for Transport he led the Scottish Brexit campaign and founded his own lobbying company, Third Avenue Public Affairs. He now delivers his independent, no-nonsense insight every weekday in the Telegraph. His latest book, Ten Years in the Death of the Labour Party , is available from Biteback.
Can Scotland Hold Another Independence Referendum?
In a referendum in 2014, Scots voted 55%-45% to remain in the UK, but both Brexit and the British governmentâs handling of COVID have bolstered support for independence among Scots, and demands for a second vote.
Election staff members count votes for the Scottish Parliamentary election at a counting centre in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, May 8, 2021. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Politics10/May/2021
Scottish nationalists are set to push for a second independence referendum with pro-independence parties holding a majority in the Scottish parliament, although British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would block any such vote.
Labour and the Lib Dems must draw up a unionist pact to stop Sturgeon s referendum hopes
The SNP government has already tabled a bill to provide for a referendum. However, it can t reach the statute book without Westminster
8 May 2021 • 7:38pm
There isn’t going to be another referendum. That remained the firm view of Scottish Tories on Saturday night as Nicola Sturgeon failed by the narrowest of margins to win the 65 seats that would have given her the overall majority she desired in the Scottish Parliament.
By holding onto highly marginal seats at opposite ends of the country, and with the help of one staunch Union-backing Labour MSP, they left the otherwise victorious nationalists marooned and one seat short of what she regarded as the overwhelming mandate she says should force Boris Johnson to agree to another referendum on independence.