DOUGLAS Ross has claimed it is a “disgrace” that the Supreme Court has been asked to rule on whether Scotland can legislate for indyref2 without Westminster consent, calling it the “legal battle that nobody wants”.
The Scottish Tory leader, who fought and lost the 2021 Holyrood election on a platform opposing a second independence vote, hit out at the legal case as it got underway in London.
Ross claimed it was Nicola Sturgeon – and not the Tories’ refusal to countenance a second vote despite a pro-independence majority at Holyrood – that had “driven Scotland’s two governments into a legal showdown”.
