How To Address A Letter To David Cameron Prime Minister

earlier this week the scottish parliament voted to give the people of scotland a choice about our country's future. that decision was taken because the uk government has decided to remove

How To Address A Letter To David Cameron Prime Minister, scotland, not just from the european union, but from the single market as well. that's clearly against the will of the majority of people who live here and it

will make us, in the words of the uk government itself, permanently poorer. that has enormous implications for our schools, our hospitals, jobs and investment. so the next two years are hugely important for scotland because they will determine the kind of country we'll become. that's why i have today written to the uk government to ensure that we can make that choice

when the time is right to accept brexit or instead become an independent country. i don't take for granted how people would vote when that choice comes but i hope we can all agree that the future of our country is our choice. now the prime minister has indicated that she intends to ignore the will of the scottish parliament and seek to prevent people in

scotland having that choice. if the westminster government continues to hold that line it will go against the very foundations of devolution so i hope the prime minister changes her mind and acknowledges that the people of scotland are entitled to a choice at a time and in a way that is right for scotland. however if she doesn't, as i expect she

won't - at least not yet - i will come back to the scottish parliament in a few weeks time with an update on how we are going to move forward to ensure that the people of scotland are able to choose our future, when we have the information we need, both about brexit and about independence, and while there is still time to take a different path.