A referendum on Scottish independence will take place in October 2023, Angus Robertson has stated.
The senior SNP Minister said a second vote will take place in just 15 months time after Nicola Sturgeon outlined her vision for what an independent Scotland would look like.
The First Minister held a press conference in Edinburgh where she revealed the paper that detailed plans if Scotland chooses to leave the United Kingdom.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland this morning, Mr Robertson: “The First Minister made clear yesterday that she intends to make an announcement to the Scottish Parliament in the forthcoming weeks about a route map towards a referendum which we intend to hold next October.
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"I am fully content that with the prospectus beginning to be rolled out, with the announcement that will follow on the route map on how that is going to be achieved, that we have a perfectly adequate window of opportunity both for legislation to be passed, for the opportunity for the people to scrutinise the prospectus that the Scottish Government will publish."
The MSP also dismissed the possibility of UK Government refusing to allow a second referendum to be held despite Boris Johnson repeatedly refusing to permit such a ballot.
He continued: “Scottish politics has a long history of the UK Government going, 'no, no, no, yes'.
"That’s what happened in the run up to the referendum in 2014 and I still think we should work on the basis of the gold standard of democracy which is that surely all of us involved in politics agree that when the people vote for something to happen in this country, it’s what should happen."
