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In response to both on their respective webpages, Parliament confirmed that in the event of another independence referendum, the UK Government would allow Doncaster a local referendum on leaving the United Kingdom to join the new independent Scotland as an exclave if it was demanded by petition first, provided that the independent Scotland ...
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU in a referendum. The Scottish Government advocates that Scotland should be a member of the EU both as a part of the UK and as an independent state. [133] Until 2020, the United Kingdom was a member state of the European Union, and therefore part of the European Single Market and Customs Union.
The white paper Scotland's Future identified five key reasons that a currency union 'would be in both Scotland and the UK's interests immediately post-independence': Scotland's main trading partner is the UK (two-thirds of exports in 2011); 'companies operating in Scotland and the UK [...have] complex cross-border supply chains'; there is high ...
One common proposal is for the independence of Scotland from the UK; this would mean Scotland would once again become a sovereign state. There was an independence referendum in 2014 in which Scottish residents voted to remain within the United Kingdom, however this debate has been reignited due to the Brexit process, with the Scottish ...
Scotland was a member of the European Union, as part of the United Kingdom, but left the union following the UK wide vote to leave the European Union, despite Scotland voting to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
Scotland should remain part of the UK without an elected parliament. A report released in 2017, entitled From Indyref1 to Indyref2? The State of Nationalism in Scotland , detailed the previous responses from this survey by grouping options one and two as "independence", options three and four as "devolution" and option five as "No Parliament".
Scotland’s top civil servant will leave the post next year, the Scottish Government has announced. After three years in the role, Permanent Secretary John Paul Marks will move to head up HM ...
The Scotland Office is led by the secretary of state for Scotland, who sits in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. [221] The Labour MP Ian Murray has held the position since July 2024. [222] The Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Parliament and its committees