The Scottish government has repeatedly raised the prospect of a vote on independence if Scotland's membership of the single market was threatened by a so-called hard Brexit.

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Thousands of businesses have had to close. Some politicians told us to “vote No to stay in the EU” back in 2014. Bet they wish they could scrub those clips from the internet. Brexit means Scotland’s ...

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John McTernan, a Labour former adviser to Tony Blair, said that Anas Sarwar might have to accept support from Reform UK at Holyrood, should ...

I agree with much of Neil Mackay’s article ("Why it is time for politics in Scotland to adopt Ulsterisation", The Herald, January 16). He is right that arguments about when a second independence ...

Measured in this way, this represents the lowest turnout since universal voting for those aged 21 or over was introduced in 1928. The 2014 Scottish ... 50 and reconsider Brexit has over 5 million ...

The Express's Senior Political Correspondent, Katie Harris, went to Clacton-on-Sea in Essex to speak to the town's residents about the historic Brexit vote five years on. Nigel Farage's ...

During his 2016 campaign for the White House, he described himself as "Mr Brexit". The parallels are real, and still relevant. In winning the 2024 election, Starmer successfully appealed to what his ...

There has also been growing frustration in Scotland, with Brexit strengthening calls for ... particularly younger ones who were not old enough to vote in 2016.

Starmer certainly has the support of the majority of the Labour parliamentary party to push for closer relations with the EU ...

Most Brits, including those who voted to leave the European Union, cannot think of any Brexit benefits exactly ... % of Brits think the UK was wrong to vote to leave in 2016 and the same ...