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Added on the 06/05/2021 15:30:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Newly elected Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf vows to ensure that the party's drive to achieve an independent Scotland is "in fifth gear". "The people of Scotland need independence now more than ever before and we will be the generation that delivers independence of Scotland," Yousaf says in his victory speech. IMAGES
Images of a demonstration in Edinburgh in support of Scottish independence, after the UK's Supreme Court rejects Scotland's bid for a referedum. IMAGES
Supporters of Scottish independence gather outside the United Kingdom Supreme Court as a ruling is announced which reject's the Scottish Parliament's right to unilaterally call a referendum without the backing of the Westminster-based UK Parliament. IMAGES
The President of Britain's Supreme Court, Lord Robert Reed, announces the court's ruling that the Scottish Parliament cannot unilaterally legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence without the backing of the Westminster-based government of the United Kingdom, in a set-back for the Scottish National Party and those supporting a repeat of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. SOUNDBITE
Scotland's government intends to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says in an address to Parliament. IMAGES
People vote in Noumea after the 307 polling stations in New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory, open for a third referendum on independence from France. Independence supporters have decided to boycott the vote, following angry demands to call off the vote because of the Covid pandemic. IMAGES