• Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces plans for a second independence referendum.
• She will publish a referendum bill later, outlining plans for the secession vote to take place in 2023.
• Scottish voters rejected independence in 2014, but Scotland’s semi-autonomous government wants a second vote.

Scotland has announced plans for an October 2023 referendum on independence. If the British government tries to prevent it; she has vowed to use the legal system to assure a vote.

The Scottish government, led by Sturgeon’s pro-independence Scottish National Party; will issue a referendum bill later outlining plans for the secession vote; to take place on October 19, 2023, she said on Tuesday.

She added that she will write to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson; to request authorization to hold a consultative referendum; but that, should he object, plans had already been made to obtain the necessary legal authorization.

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Sturgeon told members of the devolved Scottish Parliament, “What I am not willing to do; what I will never do, is allow Scottish democracy to be a prisoner; of Boris Johnson or any prime minister.”

About 5.5 million people in Scotland went to the polls; and they rejected independence in 2014. However, Scotland’s semi-autonomous administration; has declared that a second referendum is necessary; because the majority of Scots opposed the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

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