She agrees with the Prime Minister that, “to have a fair referendum, the people of Scotland need to know what Brexit looks like”.
But more control should also be handed down to Scottish local authorities.
“Now is not the time,” is an eminently reasonable response.
A third-rate leader like her – who can’t even run her schools properly – wants to make me a foreigner to my other half, and turn my home into “abroad”.
Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?
And there are other policies she could pursue. More nurseries in primary schools. Tougher school discipline. Longer sentences for child abuse.
A third of 2014 Yes voters supported Leave last year. There is an opportunity to split them away from Scottish secessionism.
“The evidence is that a majority of the Scottish people do not want a second independence referendum.”
Sturgeon wants a poll to be timed to cause maximum disruption to the talks. She mustn’t get away with it.
She says that the poll should be “at a time when the options are clearer than they are now, but before it is too late to decide our own path”.
It highlights primarily the increasingly difficulty capital-U Unionism faces appealing to a more diverse, less tribal Northern Ireland.
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Having a second referendum in the middle of the Brexit negotiations would be very difficult, and it will take time to build the next, very different ‘No’ campaign.
“People in Scotland deserve a First Minister who is focused on their priorities – raising standards in education, taking care of the health service, reforming criminal justice.”
The European Convention on Human Rights is critical to holding the UK together.