A row has broken out over Wales’ First Minister backing SNP calls for a second independence referendum.
Mark Drakeford asked how a vote could be “denied”, but party MP Ian Murray described his colleague as "wrong".
Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants another referendum next year, but the plan is shrouded in legal uncertainty.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has rejected the demand and urged the SNP-Green Government to focus on the economy and NHS.
However, Drakeford contradicted Labour’s official position by siding with Sturgeon.
The SNP “won an election on the basis they would seek another referendum”, the Welsh Labour leader told BBC Radio 4 on Friday.
“How can that be denied to the Scottish people?”
Murray, the Edinburgh South MP who sits in Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet, hit out:
“Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer speak for the Labour Party in Scotland and the UK and are clear - no deals and no referendum.
“We will never dance to the tune of those who seek to divide Britain.
“Any politician who thinks the answer to the problems our country faces after 12 years of Tory government is to put up borders between us is wrong.
“Britain and Scotland are fed up with the Tories and the SNP. Only a Labour government can bring the fresh start we need.”
Paul McLennan, SNP MSP for East Lothian, said Sarwar was at odds with his Welsh counterpart by denying the mandate for a second independence referendum.
He said: “Respecting the democratic wishes of the people of Scotland should not be ground-breaking, but Mark Drakeford has set himself apart from democracy deniers Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer by recognising the cast-iron mandate delivered for a referendum.
“Anas Sarwar’s democracy-denying position has been laid bare once again by the Welsh First Minister.
“If Labour in Wales recognise the democratic will of the people of Scotland, why won’t Scottish Labour?”
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