UK’s Johnson Urges End to ‘Pointless’ Calls for Scottish Independence Vote

UK’s Johnson Urges End to ‘Pointless’ Calls for Scottish Independence Vote
Boris Johnson tries his hand at one of the tests as he visits the French biotechnology laboratory Valneva in Livingston, Scotland, on Jan. 28, 2021. Wattie Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Scottish nationalists should put an end to its “pointless constitutional wrangling” and stop its endless calls for a second referendum on independence, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday while on a one-day visit to the region.

“I don’t think that the right thing to do is to talk endlessly about another referendum when, I think, what the people of the country want, and I think the people of Scotland want in particular, is for us to fight this pandemic,” he said while visiting a factory in Livingston, West Lothian, where CCP virus vaccines are being manufactured.