First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier this week that she will press ahead with plans to treat the next general election as a de facto referendum.
The UK Government is "scared" of allowing a second Scottish independence referendum because it knows it will lose, the SNP's depute leader has claimed.
He told the Sunday Show: "I think they know they're going to lose this, that's why they are doing everything they can to twist democracy, to refuse the opportunity for the people of Scotland, because they know they're going to lose." Brown said: "We do want to have a referendum next year, and we could do that still if the UK Government just agreed to the proper route they've agreed in the past. That's the reasonable way to do it, that's the democratic way to do it."
The depute leader's comments come after he said the Yes movement would hit "new heights" following the Supreme Court decision, which he claimed "shattered forever the notion of the UK as a voluntary union of nations".
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