A 40-year gap should be left between constitutional referendums, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he again rejected demands for another vote on Scottish independence.
The prime minister compared the wait between ballots on joining and leaving the European Union with the 2014 decision on Scotland’s future.
With polls showing the Scottish National Party on course for a majority in Scottish parliamentary elections in May as well as a sustained preference for independence, pressure is building to put the question to the vote again.
Constitutional issues are reserved to Westminster and Mr Johnson, a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign in 2016 that led to Brexit, has repeatedly said that he will not countenance another vote while he is prime minister.
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