Why Scotland can’t vote on independence
A quick guide to the Supreme Court ruling
Today’s ruling from the UK Supreme Court is both surprising and unsurprising. The five justices were unanimous in deciding that the Scottish parliament had no power to legislate for the holding of a referendum on Scottish independence.
How did they manage to produce their 35-page judgment much more quickly than they had predicted? Because they had ducked…
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