MOSCOW(Sputnik) — Scotland is open to holding a new referendum on its independence from the United Kingdom after the UK nation voted to leave the European Union, senior Scottish lawmaker in the UK parliament Angus Robertson said Monday.
Robertson reminded that Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union, with 62 percent of voters casting their votes to remain in the bloc.
“It really really matters to us that we look in an outward looking country, not a diminished little Britain… We have no intention whatsoever of seeing Scotland taken out of Europe. That would be totally democratically unacceptable. We are a European country and we will stay a European country. And if that means we have to have an independence referendum to protect Scotland, then so appears,” Robertson said in an address to the UK parliament.
