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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Xander Elliards

Alister Jack claims it's 'obvious' Scotland can have independence referendum

ALISTER Jack has claimed it is “obvious” that the people of Scotland can have their say on independence in a referendum – and laid out what he sees as a route to a second vote.

The lines come from a letter sent to the SNP’s depute leader at Westminster, Mhairi Black, who was writing exclusively for The National.

Black said she had chased up the Prime Minister after he had refused to address, when asked at PMQs by SNP MP Philippa Whitford, to “explain the democratic route by which the people of Scotland can choose whether to stay [in the UK] or not?”

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