{"id":1056,"date":"2017-04-18T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:56:37","slug":"end-of-second-scottish-indyref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"End of Second Scottish Indyref?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

British PM Theresa May’s sudden call for a general election on 8 June is widely reported to be the end of Nicola Sturgeon’s attempt to force a second Scottish independence referendum that had already been rejected in London. Sturgeon had been about to announce a timetable for the vote but that was abruptly scrapped.  WfaAR will be watching that space as we couldn’t help but notice the relish in the Daily Express’ headline – nothing like the prospect of two prominent female politicians scratching each other’s eyes out to engage the population and sell more papers. [“REVEALED: Theresa May called snap general election to ‘DESTROY’ Nicola Sturgeon” by Paul Baldwin, Daily Express online, 19 April 2017]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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British PM Theresa May’s sudden call for a general election on 8 June is widely reported to be the end of Nicola Sturgeon’s attempt to force a second Scottish independence referendum that had already been rejected in London. Sturgeon had been about to announce a timetable for…<\/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-1056","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\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}