Gordon Brown is launching a fresh campaign to keep Scotland in the UK in the wake of a the SNP’s latest election victory.
The former Labour prime minister declared that the think tank he set up, Our Scottish Future, will become a “campaigning movement” to make the “positive, progressive and patriotic case for Scotland in Britain”.
His comments came in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP winning a fourth term in government in Holyrood in last week’s Scottish election.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says it is now a matter of when, not if, a second vote on independence will take place (Jane Barlow/PA)
GORDON BROWN is launching a fresh campaign to keep Scotland in the UK following the SNP’s latest election victory.
The former Labour prime minister said his think tank Our Scottish Future would become a “campaigning movement” to make the “positive, progressive and patriotic case for Scotland in Britain.”
Although Nicola Sturgeon’s party failing to win an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, the record eight Scottish Greens elected means that most MSPs 72 out of 129 favour a second referendum.
Mr Brown said that his group would “argue for a reformed UK with a more inclusive centre, a permanent decision-making forum that brings the leaders of the nations and regions together and for UK resources to back local policies for economic prosperity.”
Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has set out new plans to stop independence GORDON Brown is launching a new campaign to save the Union after Scots elected a pro-independence majority to Holyrood. The former Labour prime minister declared that the think tank he set up, Our Scottish Future, will become a campaigning movement to make the positive, progressive and patriotic case for Scotland in Britain . It comes after the SNP increased their representation in Parliament from 63 to 64, while a record eight Scottish Greens were also elected.
Nicola Sturgeon has already told the Prime Minister that the Holyrood election result means that question of a referendum is now a matter of when – not if .