By Tony O’Riley-
A Scottish MP is pushing for a Scottish referendum after the 2021 election in search for a Scottish independence.
The pro-independence campaign follows Boris Johnson’s outright rejection of Nicola Sturgeon’s call for indyref2 this year.
Whitehall has promised a shake-up that is expected to mean a greater focus on making devolution work better and boosting the constitutional settlement with more public spending announcements for Scotland.
Mr MacNeil said that, while he would have preferred the Prime Minister to have agreed to the First Minister’s demand, his negative response had of itself created political movement.
“It’s very good for the process of independence,” declared the MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar. “There is nothing like a bit of oppression to get people going. The Scottish Government has to match Boris’s pace now and keep the independence momentum going,” he said.
The First Minister plans to ask the Scottish Parliament to endorse Scotland’s right to choose or reject independence.
The Tory leader raised his response at the weekly Cabinet, which, his spokesman pointed out, had offered its “full support” for his decision to refuse Ms Sturgeon’s request, noting how it had been taken in “close consultation” with Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary.r,
The prime minister has already rejected Ms Sturgeon’s call for a second independence referendum. He said that to hold another vote on Scotland’s future would “continue the political stagnation” of the last decade.
“The PM said: ‘This Government has an optimistic vision for Scotland and our whole country in 2020, investing in levelling up in every part of the UK.
“’We do not want the 2020s in Scotland to repeat the previous SNP’s lost decade when Scottish schools, hospitals and jobs were left behind because of their campaign to separate the United Kingdom,’” said the spokesman.