Photographer: WPA Pool / Getty Images
Photographer: WPA Pool / Getty Images
Boris Johnson is on his way to Scotland to demonstrate the benefits of the UK he leads as a powerful alliance of four countries working together to defeat the pandemic.
Instead, he delved deeper into an argument over whether Scotland should be allowed to hold another referendum on independence, just seven years after it last voted on the issue.
The British Prime Minister rejected the calls for a new vote, insisting that even pro-independence fighters, including Scotland’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, agreed at the time that the House of Representatives was a one-off event in 2014. But he went further than before to discuss what any future referendum would have to consider, including the future of the currency.
“We do not really know what the referendum would achieve,” Johnson said in a joint interview. “We do not know what would happen to the military, and we do not know what would happen to the crown, the pound and the foreign office.”
Johnson’s main point was that the four countries of the United Kingdom, by working together, could pool resources and combat the pandemic.