Scottish Independence: A blow for Sturgeon - so what next?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at what the judgment means both politically and legally with our Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies. Plus, reaction from both sides of the debate as we speak to Kevin Hague, chair of pro-union think tank These Islands, and Lesley Riddoch, columnist for Scottish papers The Herald and The National, who supports Scottish independence.
Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Alys Bowen – interviews producer
Philly Beaumont – editor
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| 1:08.0 | sooner rather than later allows us now to plan a way forward, |
| 1:13.8 | however imperfect that might be. |
| 1:16.4 | Now that's the First Minister of Scotland, the champion of Scottish independence, Nicholas Sturgeon, |
| 1:21.9 | responding to something of a body blow from the Supreme Court. |
| 1:24.9 | No second referendum without Westminster say so. |
| 1:28.3 | The Scottish Parliament does not have the power to legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence. |
| 1:36.3 | The court will now adjourn. |
| 1:39.3 | In delivering the unanimous verdict, Lord Reid's president of the Supreme Court, was, well, in essence, doing little more than making clear that the law today is the same as it was the day after the first unsuccessful referendum. |
| 1:52.7 | But there will now be talk, much talk of an unequal union, of a democratic deficit of self-determination being denied. |
| 2:03.8 | But what next, if anything, for the campaign to make Scotland an independent nation? I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 2:13.3 | Later, we will be taking a look at that Supreme Court decision through both a unionist and nationalist prism. |
| 2:19.8 | But first, let's explain what on earth was going on that led to the case being heard by the UK's most senior judges. |
| 2:25.4 | It has been more than 20 years since I study constitutional law. |
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