Tag: Nicola Sturgeon

• Sunday, May 9th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  SNP falls one seat short of full majority but with help from the Greens 2nd Scottish Independence referendum seems inevitable post covid-19

  

  First Minister Nicola Surgeon's Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has won Thursday's elections but was kept one seat from a parliamentary majority of its own after vote counting ended Saturday, it was reported.

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• Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:18 UTC

  Scottish leaders' quarrel: Conservatives call for the resignation of First Minister Sturgeon

  

  Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, should resign, the main opposition party said on Tuesday amid a dispute involving her predecessor that threatens to damage the independence movement.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Johnson off to Scotland to confront growing support of independence referendum

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is traveling on Thursday to Scotland to confront growing support for another independence referendum. Ahead of his visit, Johnson said that Scotland, as a part of the UK, gained access to a coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, and they are being administered by their shared armed forces, who are creating 80 new vaccine centers in Scotland.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:00 UTC

  Johnson, Scottish independence referendum a “once in a generation” vote; Sturgeon, “we'll be back soon”

  

  Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a “once-in-a-generation” vote. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr program, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was “a good sort of gap.”

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Scotland claims the post-Brexit trade accord was “a bad deal for fishing”

  

  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has accused the UK government of breaking promises to Scotland's fishing industry over the post-Brexit trade deal. The Scottish government said the agreement announced on Thursday was ”a bad deal for fishing.”

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Johnson tells Scotland's leader Sturgeon he will not extend deadline to reach a post Brexit deal with EU

  

  Responding to calls from the leader of the Scottish Nationalists and the mayor of London, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will not make moves to extend the deadline to reach a post-Brexit deal with the European Union.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Scottish leader anticipates an independence referendum earlier next year

  

  Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said an independence referendum that could wrench apart the United Kingdom after Brexit should take place in the earlier part of the devolved parliament’s next term, which begins next year.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2020 - 06:29 UTC

  In a dramatic speech, PM Johnson calls for more action to combat second wave of Covid-19

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British people on Tuesday to work from home where possible and ordered restaurants and bars to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19, with new restrictions lasting probably six months.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 07:06 UTC

  Scotland’s new independence referendum draft “surprises” Johnson administration

  

  A British minister said she was surprised by plans for another Scottish independence referendum given the budget deficit in the country and the economic challenges facing the whole of the United Kingdom after the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Scotland taking steps to hold a referendum on independence, First Minister Sturgeon tells Brussels

  

  Scotland is already taking steps to hold a referendum on independence and believes it is a matter of when rather than if the country separates from the rest of Britain, Scotland's First Minister said on Monday.