Keir Starmer says there’s ‘no case for rejoining’ the EU

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The Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader said Sir Keir had “joined the Tories on Brexit” in a “shoddy attempt to win back votes in England”. Ian Blackford’s outburst comes after Sir Keir said there was “no case” for the UK to rejoin the EU following the Brexit vote in 2016.

Mr Blackford said: “It’s now beyond doubt that independence is the only way for Scotland to regain our place in Europe. There is no way back under Westminster control.

“Brexit was imposed against Scotland’s will and it has cost us billions of pounds in long-term damage, hammering our economy, compounding the Tory cost-of-living crisis, and stripping away people’s rights.

“In a shoddy attempt to win back votes in England, Starmer’s Labour Party has completely abandoned Scotland.

“The confirmation that Labour has joined the Tories on Brexit makes it all the more essential that people in Scotland have the choice to determine our own future in an independence referendum, so we can build a fairer, greener and European future as an independent country.

“The SNP Government won the Scottish election on a cast-iron mandate to hold an independence referendum, with a record share of the vote.

“There is an overwhelming majority for an independence referendum in the Scottish Parliament and that democratic mandate must be respected.”

During an interview with BBC Radio Newcastle, the Labour leader said he wanted to make Brexit “work”.

He said: “We have exited the EU and we’re not going back, and let me be very clear in the north east about that – there’s no case for rejoining.

“What I want to see now is not just Brexit done in the sense that we’re technically out the EU, I want to make it work.

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“I want to make sure we take advantage of the opportunities and that we have a clear plan for Brexit.”

The SNP stepped up its campaign to drag Scotland out of the Union when Britons voted to unshackle from the Brussels bloc in a Brexit referendum.

Now they are considering proposals to hold another referendum on joining the EU in an independent Scotland to “escape the disaster of Brexit”.

Some 62 percent of Scots voted to remain in the EU in the June 2016 vote.

SNP’s policy convener Toni Giugliano and party president Michael Russell have thrown their weight behind the plans to rejoin the EU as an independent Scotland.

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