U.K. prime minister Theresa May has rejected a call from Scotland`s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to hold a fresh independence referendum before the Brexit process is complete.
Yet Sturgeon immediately retaliated by demanding that her compatriots had the right to a choice.
"Just now we should be putting all our energies into ensuring that we get that right deal for the U.K. and the right deal for Scotland in our negotiations with the European Union," said the PM, speaking to British broadcaster ITV on Thursday.
"It wouldn`t be fair to the people of Scotland because they`re being asked to make a crucial decision without the necessary information, without knowing what the future partnership will be or what the alternative of an independent Scotland would look like," she added.
"The Scottish first minister had caught May and her colleagues by surprise in announcing on Tuesday that she would seek to organize a new Scottish referendum between the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2019, the later date roughly coinciding with the anticipated end of the two-year Brexit process should PM May trigger Article 50 to commence the process before the end of this month.
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