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Head to octopusevo.com to get.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing

another independence referendum for Scotland and the growing row between Theresa May and Philip Hammond. I'm delighted to be joined by Chris Giles, the EFT's economics editor,

political corresponding Kate Allen, White or editor James Blitz, and Scotland correspondent Muir Dickie.

Thank you all for joining. It's been a big week for Scotland. On Monday

Nicholas Sturgeon, the first minister, announced that she wants to hold another independence referendum

crucially before the UK has left the EU.

She claimed that the Westminster government has ignored all of the Scottish nationalist Brexit

demands and it is time to reconsider the question of the Union with England.

The Prime Minister Theresa may hit back saying she won't sanction another referendum

until Brexit is concluded.

So Muadiki, let's begin.

How surprised were you with this announcement? We knew Ms

Sturgeon was thinking about having the referendum vote, but it still came as a bit of a shock for

her to announce this when she did. What was her thinking? Well, I think strategically she had left herself not very much room other than to go for another

independence referendum in part because the UK government had made little effort I think to compromise on any of the Brexit issues that Scottish government have focused on.

So we were expecting her to move in that direction but tactically she came quicker than we expected she chose to preempt Theresa May's

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