{"id":1048,"date":"2017-03-14T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:54:34","slug":"scottish-plans-for-second-independence-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Plans for Second Independence Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scotland First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announces that she intends to hold a second independence referendum between&nbsp;autumn 2018 and&nbsp;spring 2019 as Britain heads towards a tough exit from the EU&nbsp;due to be triggered this month. Recent opinion polls show&nbsp;support at around 50 percent for&nbsp;both sides.&nbsp;&#8220;Any pretence that the UK was a partnership of equal nations was now dead,&#8221; Sturgeon said. The British Government has to agree that the referendum can be held. For more details click on the link below. [&#8220;Scottish Independence: Nicola Sturgeon fires starting gun on referendum&#8221;, by Severin Carroll, The Guardian online 14 March 2017]. The next day, British PM, Theresa May rejected the call for a referendum before Brexit has been completed&nbsp;which implies a vote&nbsp;in 2021 at the earliest&nbsp;if the UK Government agrees at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/mar\/13\/nicola-sturgeon-fires-starting-gun-on-second-scottish-independence-referendum\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announces that she intends to hold a second independence referendum between&nbsp;autumn 2018 and&nbsp;spring 2019 as Britain heads towards a tough exit from the EU&nbsp;due to be triggered this month. Recent opinion polls show&nbsp;support at around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}