NICOLA Sturgeon has hit back at the Scottish Conservative leader after he called it a “disgrace” that the Supreme Court has been asked to rule on the legality of Scotland holding an independence referendum without the UK’s permission.
Speaking as the hearing kicked off on Tuesday, Douglas Ross branded it the “legal battle that nobody wants”. He argued that it was the First Minister who had “driven Scotland’s two governments into a legal showdown”.
However, he failed to mention that it was Westminster’s refusal to offer a Section 30 order despite Holyrood’s pro-independence majority that led to Sturgeon’s government referring legislation to the court.
