Blow for Scottish nationalists as U.K. court rejects independence vote bid

The Scottish authorities can not maintain a second referendum on independence with out approval from the British Parliament, the UK’s high court docket dominated on Wednesday, dealing a hammer blow to nationalists’ hopes of holding a vote subsequent yr.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, chief of the pro-independence Scottish Nationwide Get together (SNP), had introduced earlier this yr she supposed to carry an advisory vote on secession subsequent October, however that it needed to be lawful and internationally acknowledged.