Iain Macwhirter: Sturgeon shouldn’t be afraid of a People’s Vote on Brexit – it’s the only referendum she’s likely to get

If Nicola Sturgeon is planning a “lifeboat” referendum on independence before the UK leaves the EU in March, as the Western Isles MP Angus MacNeill believes, she’s doing so very quietly. No one seriously expects the First Minister, at the SNP conference this week, to announce that “precise timescale” for indyref2 she promised in June last year, after she “reset” it. The FM said she’d give the new timeable in autumn 2018 “at the end of negotiations with the EU when terms of Brexi . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16966123.iain-macwhirter-nicola-sturgeon-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-a-peoples-vote-on-brexit-its-the-only-referendum-shes-likely-to-get/