Keir Starmer hits out at Nicola Sturgeon's plan to make next general election a 'de facto' indyref
Keir Starmer has hit out at Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to make the next general election a “de facto” indyref - claiming the move “stands in the way of common sense”.
Speaking at the launch of Gordon Brown’s Labour report on the UK’s future yesterday Starmer said: “I know Nicola Sturgeon intends to try to change it to an election on something else completely, it isn’t. No amount of discussion by other people is going to change the terms of the General Election. That is what a General Election is all about.
Following the Supreme Court ruling Sturgeon announced that if independence supporting parties in Scotland received more than 50 per cent of the vote in the election then that would be a mandate to go for independence.Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, who was also at launch, rejected Sturgeon’s plans for the next election to be a de facto indyref.
Brown said his commission on the UK’s future was proposing “the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster and Whitehall” that “our country has seen”. Brown also said the report identified 288 “new economic clusters”, 200 of them outside London, capable of creating tens of thousands of high-paying jobs.
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