(ANSA) – LONDON, JUN 29 – An opportunity for a meeting today between the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth and the Scottish independence first minister Nicola Sturgeon, in the aftermath of Sturgeon’s relaunch of the challenge to try to obtain a second post-Brexit referendum on secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom – after the one lost in 2014 – on 19 October 2023.
The coincidence between the announcement and today’s face-to-face was coincidental, in the wake of the elderly sovereign’s last-minute decision to make a now-rare off-site trip to Edinburgh to resume the tradition of her week’s annual stay in her Scottish royal residence of the Holyrood Palace. Elizabeth II received Sturgeon on a courtesy visit in the palace of Holyrood, but the conversation did not reveal the slightest public reference to political affairs. A video showed the monarch standing, for once not forced to lean on the cane she has been seen routinely using in recent months for any movement due to recently openly confessed “mobility problems”. There was no lack of traditional smiles, nor the gift to Her Majesty by the first minister of the local government of Edinburgh, and leader of the separatists of the Scottish National Party (Snp), of a reserve bottle worth 150 pounds of whiskey. Johnnie Walker Scottish blue label.
The legislative initiative pro referendum bis presented yesterday by Sturgeon will be subjected in the first instance to a judgment by the Supreme Court of London. But the British central government of Boris Johnson, which according to the constitutional rules in force has the last word on paper, has already reiterated that it does not want to give its consent: given the current national and international context and the preventive commitment taken by both the fronts in 2014 to consider the result of that consultation (55.3% no, 44.7% yes) a generational response. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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