BORIS Johnson holed Nicola Sturgeon’s hopes for another independence referendum yesterday while on a visit to Scotland.
The PM told the First Minister to focus on fighting the virus together instead of her “pointless wrangling” over a second divisive poll.
Asked why the people could not have another say, the PM declared “they had one in 2014”.
He said talk of a second vote was “completely irrelevant” to normal people’s lives.
And he vowed “wild horses won’t keep me away” from Scotland, after criticism of his tour of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Ms Sturgeon insisted it was not “essential” travel and SNP MPs also piled in.
Visiting a testing site and British Army troops dishing out the vaccine, he said he was “here in my capacity as PM of the whole country to thank hardworking officials across the whole of Britain”.
And he took apart Ms Sturgeon’s demands for another vote on independence — just six years after the last one.
He said: “I don’t see the advantage of getting lost in pointless constitutional wrangling when we had a referendum not so very long ago.
“I think what people want to see is us bouncing back more strongly together. I think you can see the amazing contribution of Scotland to the national effort.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backed the visit.
Support for a referendum continues to grow, according to polls north of the border.
Scots ministers have vowed to publish a plan for a second vote if they win the upcoming May elections.
And writing in today’s Sun, senior Tory Michael Gove warns Scots the Covid fight would have been hampered if Scotland was independent.
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