THE GROWING chasm between prosperous London and the rest of the UK became even wider today as demands in the capital grew to become a breakaway state. The capital was shown to be monumentaly out-of-step wit the rest of Britain after largely voting Remain while the nation voted to Leave the EU. But today the disconnect was...
Scotland will likely seek independence for a second time this decade after the historic vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Friday. Sturgeon's Scottish National Party was elected on a platform that vowed, in part, to revisit the independence issue —...
Scotland's first minister has said a second independence referendum is "highly likely" after the UK voted to leave the EU. Nicola Sturgeon said it was "democratically unacceptable" that Scotland faced the prospect of being taken out of the EU against its will. She said the Scottish government would begin...