Nicola Sturgeon has declared she will turn the next general election as a de facto Scottish referendum if she is denied legal powers to hold a second independence vote.
The First Minister made it clear if, as is thought likely, the UK Supreme Court rules that Holyrood does not have the legal right to stage its own referendum the question will be put to voters in another way.
Sturgeon told MSPs in Holyrood: “If it does transpire that there is no lawful way to give the people of Scotland a choice of independence in a referendum, and if the UK Government continues to deny a section 30 order, the SNP party will fight the UK General Election on this single question - should Scotland be an independent country?"
