Rishi Sunak has met Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for their first face-to-face summit since becoming Prime Minister.
25.10.2022 - 07:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Liz Truss said the best way to deal with Nicola Sturgeon was to ignore her. It was one policy the outgoing Tory leader managed to stick to - she never had a formal meeting with the First Minister during her time in Downing Street.
Rishi Sunak will now take charge of the UK Government after winning the latest Conservative leadership contest. Will he make a difference in the big constitutional row? Don't bet on it.
Sturgeon wants to call a second referendum on Scottish independence on October 19 next year - providing the UK Supreme Court decides Holyrood has the required legal powers to organise such a vote.
But the SNP leader must also wrestle with long-standing opposition in Westminster to her plans.
Sunak will become the fourth Tory PM to deal with the political fall-out caused by the 2016 Brexit vote and Nationalist demands for an IndyRef2 as a result.
Will he change course? His previous comments suggest not.
Speaking at a party hustings in July, Sunak set out his firm opposition to an IndyRef2. He told an audience in Leeds: "We're under real risk.
"The best things we can do are be firm with Nicola Sturgeon about another referendum. We need to make sure that in government in Whitehall that we don't just devolve and forget, which for many years has been the institutional imperative.
“We as UK Government ministers have to be more active in Scotland, we have to be more active about delivering benefits of the Union on the ground to the people in Scotland and working constructively there to do that."
Sunak added: "We have got to make arguments about the union that speak to people's hearts and speak to their emotions. Because if we focus just on the practicalities, we will not be successful. And I think we can do that."
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Rishi Sunak has met Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for their first face-to-face summit since becoming Prime Minister.
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