:00:10. > :00:20.Scotland's streets are full of tributes to those who have helped
:00:21. > :00:25.shape the country and wider Europe. Thinkers, poets, warriors. But no
:00:26. > :00:29.Scotland is torn between two identities, it's pretty self and its
:00:30. > :00:34.European one. Scotland can now no longer belong to both. This dilemma
:00:35. > :00:43.is brewing in true and acute constitutional crisis. What effect
:00:44. > :00:48.will leaving the EU have on those whose livelihoods have been shaped
:00:49. > :00:53.by European membership for decades? What we need to know and no fast is
:00:54. > :00:56.where our future is going to come from.
:00:57. > :01:01.And how will Scotland cope as Britain leaves the single market?
:01:02. > :01:08.80% of all the food we sell out of Scotland goes to Europe. Europe is
:01:09. > :01:11.the ball game for our export right now.
:01:12. > :01:15.Scotland did not choose this. It rejected a Brexit but Brexit is
:01:16. > :01:20.being thrust upon it. What would that do for the 300-year-old union
:01:21. > :01:24.between Scotland and England? We are being taken out of the EU
:01:25. > :01:29.against our will. That is a democratic outrage. It is
:01:30. > :01:31.not about whether there could be another independence referendum. Of
:01:32. > :01:37.course there could. The question is should there be?
:01:38. > :01:43.This week, the Prime Minister will trigger article 50 and pose special
:01:44. > :01:48.questions for those in Scotland and Northern Ireland that did not vote
:01:49. > :01:52.to come out of Europe. Nine months ago, just before the
:01:53. > :01:56.referendum on European Union membership, I made this observation.
:01:57. > :02:01.It seemed hypothetical at the time. With a vote to leave the European
:02:02. > :02:04.Union propel Scotland for the to independence? It certainly changes
:02:05. > :02:09.the independence proposition in ways we haven't begun to consider. It
:02:10. > :02:12.would confront Scotland but the new national question. Which union do
:02:13. > :02:19.you want to be part of, the British one of the European one? That is an
:02:20. > :02:23.argument we haven't started to have. It is not hypothetical now, it is
:02:24. > :02:29.real and urgent. The UK appears to have voted out,
:02:30. > :02:32.Scotland has voted in. With 40 to protect our place in the
:02:33. > :02:40.world's biggest single market and the jobs and that depend on it.
:02:41. > :02:47.What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market.
:02:48. > :02:51.We voted to safeguard freedom to travel, live, work and study in
:02:52. > :02:54.other European countries. Brexit must mean control the number
:02:55. > :02:57.of people who come to Britain from Europe and that is what we will
:02:58. > :03:03.deliver. I want to take the opportunity this
:03:04. > :03:06.morning to speak directly to citizens of other European countries
:03:07. > :03:15.living here in Scotland. You remain welcome here, Scotland is your home
:03:16. > :03:20.and your contribution is valued. Last summer's EU Referendum Bill in
:03:21. > :03:24.the UK looking like two different countries articulate into mutually
:03:25. > :03:29.hostile visions of the future. A second independence referendum, if
:03:30. > :03:34.and when it comes, will be fought on different terrain. How does Brexit
:03:35. > :03:38.change the independence prospectus? It makes it in some ways more likely
:03:39. > :03:44.that Scotland will become independent but also more difficult.
:03:45. > :03:49.It does. This time round, Nicola Sturgeon is linking Scottish
:03:50. > :03:53.independence with EU membership. They are inextricable. That wasn't
:03:54. > :04:00.the case first time round. He also had the problem in the SNP that a
:04:01. > :04:05.good third of their members support getting away from Brussels so how do
:04:06. > :04:12.she square that? Opinion polls suggest that some who
:04:13. > :04:20.voted no to independence in 2014 have moved into the yes camp because
:04:21. > :04:28.of Brexit. But what about those who want out of both unions? This is
:04:29. > :04:34.Lossiemouth. Moray prize by selling whisky across the world and bringing
:04:35. > :04:39.in tourists. In the EU referendum, they smack in close than any other
:04:40. > :04:44.part of Scotland to Vote Leave. Why was it the closest?
:04:45. > :04:55.I think the age demographic comes into it and the military factor. We
:04:56. > :04:59.are very much an RAF, Navy and Army area and a lot of the people that
:05:00. > :05:01.have settled here are very pro-the union. The SNP has made the
:05:02. > :05:06.assumption that anybody who votes union. The SNP has made the
:05:07. > :05:09.for independence will want to remain in Europe but that is just not true.
:05:10. > :05:13.for independence will want to remain Most of them actually want to get
:05:14. > :05:18.out of Europe. It is something I learned when I was an SNP candidate.
:05:19. > :05:21.I hadn't appreciated it until four years ago.
:05:22. > :05:28.Why do so many people here want to leave the British and European
:05:29. > :05:32.Union? The SNP supporters in this area are
:05:33. > :05:40.really staunch once. They are passionate. The bottom line is that
:05:41. > :05:48.they really want independence. They are fiercely independent.
:05:49. > :06:01.A few miles to the east, the river Spey empties into the sea. The river
:06:02. > :06:09.feeds two of the country's biggest industries, whisky and tourism. The
:06:10. > :06:15.mainstream currents of Scottish public opinion contained many
:06:16. > :06:21.unexpected eddies. Moray is happy to send MPs from the SNP to Westminster
:06:22. > :06:26.and Holyrood but in 2014 and voted no to independence. A substantial
:06:27. > :06:31.minority who voted yes to independence went on to vote to
:06:32. > :06:35.leave the European Union. A second independence referendum offering
:06:36. > :06:38.independence in Europe at present back group, those who wanted
:06:39. > :06:43.independence for Scotland but to leave the EU, with a new dilemma and
:06:44. > :06:52.a new choice. Which union day want to leave more, the British one of
:06:53. > :06:55.the European one? Whether you are for EU membership or
:06:56. > :06:59.against it, something that unites many people is that these decisions
:07:00. > :07:08.should not be imposed on us, they should be taken for ourselves. In
:07:09. > :07:16.2014, the No campaign said to vote no to stay in the EU. Then we were
:07:17. > :07:20.told to vote remained to stay in the EU. Scotland and both of those
:07:21. > :07:26.things and are still faced with getting taken out of the EU against
:07:27. > :07:34.our will. That is a democratic outrage and it resonates with many
:07:35. > :07:38.people. How does that appeal to democratic
:07:39. > :07:46.outrage measure up against economic anxiety? Moray is not a wealthy
:07:47. > :07:51.area, margins are taken, many incomes low. Brexit raises questions
:07:52. > :07:58.for all of us about the viability of the companies we work for and the
:07:59. > :08:03.jobs that sustain us. Scotland's First Minister will have to appeal
:08:04. > :08:07.to the public for whom there is already too much uncertainty.
:08:08. > :08:16.Europeans make up sometimes up to 90% of our business in June, July
:08:17. > :08:26.and August. It is important they are made to feel welcome. 40% is quite
:08:27. > :08:31.normal but I know that hotels in London where it is 100% of staff.
:08:32. > :08:40.That is going to give us real issues. It is not as if this is a
:08:41. > :08:43.new problem for our industry because we have had immigrants, either from
:08:44. > :08:49.the Commonwealth or from Europe, for as long as I know. But what we need
:08:50. > :08:54.to know and needs to know fast is where our future workforce is going
:08:55. > :08:59.to come from. In Britain there is 1 million people
:09:00. > :09:09.roughly employed in hospitality industry. If you could get 800,000
:09:10. > :09:10.people to move to our industry, we are immediately 200,000 people
:09:11. > :09:30.short. Trade changes. This is the railway
:09:31. > :09:38.station from which whisky was sent around the world. The distillery
:09:39. > :09:41.remains and the industry is one of Scotland's great success stories and
:09:42. > :09:45.Brexit is unlikely to change that. The rest of the food and drink
:09:46. > :09:50.industry in Scotland cannot be that confident. This industry is no
:09:51. > :09:55.bigger in Scotland's economy than oil and gas. This factory makes
:09:56. > :09:59.shortbread and other distinctively Scottish products. More comes of
:10:00. > :10:03.this production line in a day than many of us could eat in our
:10:04. > :10:08.lifetimes. It generates this level of business because it is free to
:10:09. > :10:13.sell across Europe. Will those markets still be open after Brexit?
:10:14. > :10:17.No one knows. 80% of all the food we sell out of
:10:18. > :10:24.Scotland into international markets goes to Europe. Europe is the ball
:10:25. > :10:29.game for our export story right now so one quarter goes to France alone,
:10:30. > :10:33.so ongoing access to that market is going to be critical.
:10:34. > :10:38.How much of a threat does Brexit represent? Presumably after Brexit
:10:39. > :10:41.those who buy the products will continue to buy them.
:10:42. > :10:46.I don't think demand will be a problem. Scotland has an increasing
:10:47. > :10:50.reputation as a land of food and drink, producing quality products.
:10:51. > :11:00.But there are huge unknowns about what Brexit means. If we have huge
:11:01. > :11:02.export taxes on our products, we could become uncompetitive very
:11:03. > :11:06.quickly. The Scottish Government asked the UK
:11:07. > :11:11.Government if Scotland could negotiate a separate deal to stay in
:11:12. > :11:14.the single market. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives says that is
:11:15. > :11:18.not possible. It is not about what I think it is
:11:19. > :11:25.about what is the 27 other nations think and they have said no. The
:11:26. > :11:31.Foreign Minister from Spain said no. Other European leaders said that is
:11:32. > :11:36.not on the cards. We negotiate with the UK as a whole, we don't go see
:11:37. > :11:39.with different bits of the member state.
:11:40. > :11:43.We don't suggest that that will be straight forward without legal,
:11:44. > :11:47.technical and political complexities but we set out world's complexities
:11:48. > :11:59.will be on the basis by which they could be overcome. But then that we
:12:00. > :12:04.would -- within that we would reluctantly see Scotland leave the
:12:05. > :12:12.EU but have measures that support our economy.
:12:13. > :12:16.Scotland, Britain as a whole, has not lose bids are dependent on
:12:17. > :12:21.European markets. We chose a European destiny in the early 1970s.
:12:22. > :12:28.Before that, for generations, we had for the most part bought and sold to
:12:29. > :12:32.the British Empire. The Empire that sheared enterprise between England
:12:33. > :12:37.and Scotland, bound securely into the United Kingdom.
:12:38. > :12:47.Scotland was an enthusiastic partner in imperial Britain and it faced and
:12:48. > :12:51.frantically West. This stretch of water, the River Clyde, became
:12:52. > :12:54.Scotland's trading superhighway to the prosperity of the planet.
:12:55. > :13:01.Glasgow became the second city of the Empire, built on trade and then
:13:02. > :13:06.industry. Then in 1973 that all changed. Britain turned to face
:13:07. > :13:10.east. Placing its back to the old Empire. This place started going
:13:11. > :13:17.into steep decline. No more heavy industry, eventually no more
:13:18. > :13:21.shipbuilding. No more ships from South Africa and Molly are coming up
:13:22. > :13:26.the Clyde lead in the projects. The anger and poverty and despair that
:13:27. > :13:31.brought with it placed enormous strain on Scotland's union with
:13:32. > :13:33.England. It was the social context within which support for Scottish
:13:34. > :13:38.independence grew to its present level. Are we going to go through
:13:39. > :13:42.dramatic change of that sort again as result of leaving the European
:13:43. > :13:47.Union and what will it do to the union with England?
:13:48. > :13:51.The position of the union was that it was probably at its strongest for
:13:52. > :13:57.obvious reasons immediately after World War II but also because in the
:13:58. > :14:02.50s, apart from Labour, there were also Conservative governments who
:14:03. > :14:07.were sensitive and aware of ensuring that there was no sense of
:14:08. > :14:14.Westminster imperialism. That came to an end and there were a series of
:14:15. > :14:20.impositions on critically insensitive impositions when the
:14:21. > :14:25.nation was going through a crisis through re-industrialisation and we
:14:26. > :14:30.know what happened there. Some people say that we not a
:14:31. > :14:36.Scottish party but neither are we an English party, naughty Welsh party,
:14:37. > :14:43.nor an Irish party. We are the party of the whole the United Kingdom.
:14:44. > :14:47.Since then, the union has been semi-stabilised in the period since
:14:48. > :14:52.the 80s. Westminster, at least in relation to
:14:53. > :14:55.the offers of flexibility, in relation to what Edinburgh seems to
:14:56. > :15:00.want as far as negotiations are concerned, has been implacably
:15:01. > :15:06.opposed. In fact, the attitudes remained me very much of the
:15:07. > :15:10.inflexibility Sean, not by the Scottish office, but by Westminster
:15:11. > :15:16.politicians during the Thatcher either of the 1980s.
:15:17. > :15:23.What happens at that and flexibility does no break the union? In Scotland
:15:24. > :15:28.stayed in the EU for the rest of the UK left, this border would become
:15:29. > :15:33.not just the edge of Scotland, but of a single trading bloc stretching
:15:34. > :15:37.to the Black Sea. This was not the proposition in 2014. This is
:15:38. > :15:44.something quite new, the possibility that a hard customs border might be
:15:45. > :15:48.drawn across the island of Britain. For Scotland, that's still a
:15:49. > :15:56.hypothetical question. But for Ireland, that's very real.
:15:57. > :16:00.This road bridge crosses the border between the United Kingdom and the
:16:01. > :16:04.Republic of Ireland. It's one of more than 200 places where you can
:16:05. > :16:08.make the crossing, and it really is an invisible border. You could drive
:16:09. > :16:13.across here without noticing you'd left one country and entered
:16:14. > :16:17.another. After Britain leads the European Union, it was be legal of
:16:18. > :16:21.citizens of 46 other European countries to come here to the
:16:22. > :16:26.Republic of Ireland and get a job and claim benefits and use the
:16:27. > :16:32.services. But a few yards in that direction, there would be no
:16:33. > :16:36.automatic right to do any of that. That change is what Northern
:16:37. > :16:39.Ireland's biggest party, the Democratic Unionist Party campaigned
:16:40. > :16:45.for. Why did they DUP back Brexit?
:16:46. > :16:50.There's number of reasons. The European Union is very good at
:16:51. > :16:53.creating regulations, it created hundreds on agriculture alone.
:16:54. > :16:57.Ultimately, we believe that power is better invested at the local level
:16:58. > :17:02.will stop so we want more power to the local authorities, to regional
:17:03. > :17:06.assemblies, and ultimately to Westminster. Not to be pestered into
:17:07. > :17:08.Europe whether it's little accountability.
:17:09. > :17:13.Do you except that Britain's decision to leave the EU hope poses
:17:14. > :17:19.huge problems for the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland?
:17:20. > :17:24.Oh, yes comic huge problems. Do we have a hard or soft border? Both
:17:25. > :17:28.Britain and Ireland have indicated they would prefer to have a
:17:29. > :17:33.free-flowing border. The truth is we had something like 16,000 troops
:17:34. > :17:38.here and many police officers and several roads close, and didn't stop
:17:39. > :17:44.things getting across the border. So I can't see that they will be able
:17:45. > :17:52.to enforce a hard border with two or-3000 customs officers.
:17:53. > :17:59.The nationalist SDLP are fiercely pro-European. Likely Scottish
:18:00. > :18:02.governments, they want the UK to the gutted a special status for Northern
:18:03. > :18:06.Ireland that would keep it inside the single market. And keep the
:18:07. > :18:11.border open. -- negotiate a special status for Northern Ireland.
:18:12. > :18:15.Three years, we have spent time getting rid of the border, nicking
:18:16. > :18:19.sure people could freely move and do business across the island and
:18:20. > :18:22.integrate. The Good Friday Agreement made sure that both the Republic of
:18:23. > :18:26.Ireland and Northern Ireland were members of the European Union. We
:18:27. > :18:30.have the ability as Irish nationalists to integrate in that
:18:31. > :18:38.context. Taking all that away an that context is very damaging to our
:18:39. > :18:40.political and economic progress. What is the special status for
:18:41. > :18:44.Northern Ireland that you want to secure in Europe? What does it look
:18:45. > :18:49.like? It look so much like what we have
:18:50. > :18:55.now. Whether not we remain members of the European Union, it doesn't
:18:56. > :18:59.need to look like that. We can do business and we can move across
:19:00. > :19:03.Ireland. We don't have to try and harder now border. In fact, it isn't
:19:04. > :19:07.possible. There were 260 border crossings from the North to the
:19:08. > :19:12.South. The idea that you could control that border in some way just
:19:13. > :19:16.doesn't make any sense to me. I believe the problems we will face
:19:17. > :19:21.will be much less than the problems the Republic of Ireland will face as
:19:22. > :19:25.a result of the Brexit vote. I think the Irish Government will have a lot
:19:26. > :19:32.of difficulties to deal with, not least that the country that the
:19:33. > :19:37.exporter most do is outside of the European Union. -- that they export
:19:38. > :19:44.most do. The opening of the Irish border has
:19:45. > :19:49.been transformative. 20 years ago, there were watchtowers and military
:19:50. > :19:53.checkpoints here. You can't come down this way.
:19:54. > :19:59.This border ground was sunk in poverty and unemployment.
:20:00. > :20:05.Partition devastated the economy of this area. It was a thriving port,
:20:06. > :20:13.midway between Belfast and Dublin. And that locational advantage with
:20:14. > :20:18.partition was a major disadvantage. It was tied up in the hard border.
:20:19. > :20:25.Our Sister Towler across-the-board, Dundalk, was labelled Al Paso. The
:20:26. > :20:31.rural hinterland was stigmatised by the British media during the
:20:32. > :20:37.troubles as bandit country. Little wonder no-one wants a return
:20:38. > :20:41.to hard border. London and Dublin both say cross-border trade should
:20:42. > :20:43.remain free. But how, when the UK might well be porting goods from
:20:44. > :20:49.around the world that contravene EU might well be porting goods from
:20:50. > :20:53.import rules, could you stop those goods moving illegally across this
:20:54. > :20:57.border and into the European single market? Again, no one knows. But if
:20:58. > :21:04.you live here, it's the most urgent question.
:21:05. > :21:08.I didn't sign up for this, this is not my day job, I'm not a
:21:09. > :21:12.politician, I don't want to be doing this. But I have grown up in this
:21:13. > :21:18.place, and I've seen it at its worst, and I've happy Rutledge of
:21:19. > :21:21.participating with others in its reverb. -- I've had the privilege of
:21:22. > :21:29.participating. In its rebirth. And I reverb. -- I've had the privilege of
:21:30. > :21:32.don't want to lose that. Membership of the European year has
:21:33. > :21:36.also transformed the Irish Republic. Europe is at the heart of its
:21:37. > :21:42.national identity, and has been key to normalising its once acrimonious
:21:43. > :21:46.relationship with the UK. Written and Ireland joined the European
:21:47. > :21:49.Community on the same day in 1973. It is shared membership of that
:21:50. > :21:52.Community on the same day in 1973. single European market that has made
:21:53. > :21:56.that border between them unimportant to the point of invisibility. In
:21:57. > :22:03.Dublin, there is widespread dismay at the prospect of new border
:22:04. > :22:07.controls, and specimen too. The question is how hard the border
:22:08. > :22:12.is. Even the softest borders, with Switzerland, with Norway, that are
:22:13. > :22:17.around the European Union, have a requirement for customs clearances
:22:18. > :22:22.for document checking, etc. So that'll have to be the minimum
:22:23. > :22:25.there. That be disruptive. Even if you have that going to take place in
:22:26. > :22:31.some magical way that British customs will be embedded in Irish
:22:32. > :22:35.sports, which I can see, politically, then that has a
:22:36. > :22:39.consequence. There have to be additional costs imposed on
:22:40. > :22:42.exporters in the North going to the South and vice versa. Whether not
:22:43. > :22:47.there's free movement of people is a different issue. Free movement of
:22:48. > :22:51.people isn't a free movement of work, and free movement of work
:22:52. > :22:55.isn't free movement of goods. And all three have somehow been
:22:56. > :22:59.completed. Ireland's border question finds an
:23:00. > :23:04.echo in Scotland. For if, as London and Dublin both desire, is found to
:23:05. > :23:08.allow trade to continue freely across the border, wouldn't that set
:23:09. > :23:10.a precedent for an independent Scotland trading with a UK outside
:23:11. > :23:17.the EU? Other parallels between Ireland and
:23:18. > :23:23.devolved Scotland and a predicament that Brexit puts a devolved Scotland
:23:24. > :23:29.in? Critically having voted overwhelmingly to Remain?
:23:30. > :23:33.I think it does. This is one of the tent is playing out in Ireland.
:23:34. > :23:37.There is an awareness growing at a solution for Northern Ireland could
:23:38. > :23:43.also have ramifications in Scotland. So this idea is growing that is a
:23:44. > :23:48.border solution was found, said that then be a case used by an
:23:49. > :23:51.independent Scotland, or a pro independence campaign in a future
:23:52. > :23:54.referendum. To say, you did it for Northern Ireland, why can't you did
:23:55. > :24:00.it for Northern Ireland, why can she do it with us?
:24:01. > :24:08.-- why can't you do it with us. The border is one question, others
:24:09. > :24:10.remain. But currency with an independent Scotland use, how would
:24:11. > :24:16.it close the gap between what it spends on what it races in taxation?
:24:17. > :24:21.For that gap is wide. And did it, should it, join the EU? This is the
:24:22. > :24:24.territory on which a second independence referendum would be
:24:25. > :24:28.fought. I can confirm today that next week I
:24:29. > :24:33.will seek the 40 of the Scottish Parliament to agree with the UK
:24:34. > :24:36.Government of the details of a section 30 order. The procedure that
:24:37. > :24:39.will enable the Scottish Parliament to legislate for an independence
:24:40. > :24:44.referendum. I think, just now, we should be
:24:45. > :24:49.putting all our energies into making sure we get the right deal for the
:24:50. > :24:54.UK and for Scotland in our vigorish issues with the European Union.
:24:55. > :24:58.That's my job as Prime Minister. Right now, we should be working
:24:59. > :25:02.together, not pulling apart. Should be working together to get that
:25:03. > :25:07.right it for Scotland and the UK. That's my job as Prime Minister. For
:25:08. > :25:13.that reason, I say to the SNP, now is the time.
:25:14. > :25:18.independence referendum in its tax independence referendum in its tax
:25:19. > :25:22.-- tracks by agreeing to negotiate a separate deal for Scotland. Why
:25:23. > :25:31.would she do that? I have not had anyone in the S to
:25:32. > :25:37.tell me how a deferential deal only differentiates in geography. How can
:25:38. > :25:40.someone working in RBS working in Edinburgh had something different
:25:41. > :25:43.and have the EU negotiations gets some thing different from someone
:25:44. > :25:48.working at the same office, but in London? How can a fruit farmer in
:25:49. > :25:53.Perthshire get something different from one in Kent? I have asked again
:25:54. > :25:58.why this differentiation doesn't seem to apply, but geographic
:25:59. > :26:04.differentiation does. No-one in the SNP can tell me.
:26:05. > :26:10.I know you are doing work on the currency question, we can no longer
:26:11. > :26:14.say we will shed the pounds? I'm not been difficult here, but I'm
:26:15. > :26:22.not going to jump steps and get into detailed discussions now. What I
:26:23. > :26:32.accept and have always accepted, is that Scotland is, those of us who
:26:33. > :26:38.advocate independence have a duty to Ansa the questions people need
:26:39. > :26:42.answers to, and that includes questions about economic stability
:26:43. > :26:46.and around the currency. In this context, it will undoubtedly include
:26:47. > :26:50.questions about our relationship with the European Union. Firstly, we
:26:51. > :26:54.are in a process just now when I have judgment is to make, and so
:26:55. > :26:59.does the Prime Minister, and I will make those in good order and based
:27:00. > :27:03.on what I think is best. I am to jump ahead several steps.
:27:04. > :27:06.When it comes to fighting for independence in a second referendum,
:27:07. > :27:12.we be straight and say, Scotland Islington inherits as an independent
:27:13. > :27:17.country Qu bec deficit. There will be pain, spending cuts, tax
:27:18. > :27:21.increases are big borrowing or accommodation of all three.
:27:22. > :27:26.I will always be straight with people. Scotland as part of UK has a
:27:27. > :27:30.big deficit. We have had apart the past five years spending cuts. Exit
:27:31. > :27:36.is undoubtedly going to make the UK's deficit worse. It will lead to
:27:37. > :27:39.greater spending cuts in the UK and greater pain as a result. The
:27:40. > :27:47.question for Scotland is not how do we escape magically a deficit, is it
:27:48. > :27:51.how do we best equip ourselves to deal that deficit and growth our way
:27:52. > :27:56.into a more sustainable position with our own values underpinning the
:27:57. > :27:58.decisions we take two that is the decision that would be in play
:27:59. > :28:04.Scotland was making that choice again.
:28:05. > :28:11.This week, Nicola Sturgeon will seek authority for a second independence
:28:12. > :28:17.referendum. Theresa May was a no, not yet, and begin the process to
:28:18. > :28:23.take the UK out of Europe. Scotland voted to stay in both unions. It's
:28:24. > :28:27.being told now that it can't have both. That's also being told it
:28:28. > :28:32.can't choose. The decision will be made at Westminster. The political
:28:33. > :28:34.strain that will place on the Anglo-Scottish union is surely
:28:35. > :28:37.clear.