Several SNP MPs called for a second referendum on Scottish independence during Boris Johnson’s final Prime Minister’s Questions.
Inverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan compared the UK’s slow economic growth with other OECD nations, asking: “Why should Scotland not be afforded the same opportunity to seek prosperity through being a sovereign independent nation standing as an equal among other equal nations?”
The Prime Minister replied that Scotland was protected by the “massive fiscal firepower” of the UK Treasury.
SNP deputy Westminster leader Kirsten Oswald said Scotland was “paying a high price for his disastrous hard Brexit imposed against the wishes of Scottish voters”.
She added: “It is time to end this democracy denial Prime minister, Scotland can’t afford to stay shackled to this crumbling union and Tory governments that we don’t vote for.”
Mr Johnson replied: “This is the country that secured furlough, that delivered the vaccine across the whole of the UK, while the SNP gets on with overtaxing to the tune £900 million – that is what they are overtaxing in Scotland – and we had a referendum in 2014.”
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