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		</div><p>Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she is &#8220;fairly certain&#8221; there will be a second referendum on Scottish independence &#8211; but she does not think Britons will get another chance to vote on remaining in the European Union.</p>
<p>She made the comments in a speech in America where she argued independence is the best way for Scotland to make a positive contribution to the world.</p>
<p>She also told the audience that while she &#8220;fervently&#8221; wants Scotland to become independent, she &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t want it to be won on the basis of a campaign that was as dishonest as the EU referendum campaign&#8221;.</p>
<p>Her address took place a week after MSPs at Holyrood backed her call for a second independence referendum following the UK vote for Brexit &#8211; a decision which was not supported by voters in Scotland.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted &#8220;now is not the time&#8221; for another ballot after Scotland decided by 55% to 45% to stay part of the Union in September 2014.</p>
<p>The SNP leader accepted some people &#8220;understandably are reluctant&#8221; to hold another vote on the issue so soon after that, but also claimed Mrs May&#8217;s refusal to grant permission for a second referendum was &#8220;not a sustainable position&#8221;.</p>
<p>In a speech at Stanford University, the First Minister said she was &#8220;seeking that legal consent from the Westminster government to legislate for an independence referendum, which at the moment they&#8217;re saying they&#8217;re not willing to give&#8221;.</p>
<p>But she stated: &#8220;That is not a sustainable position frankly for the UK Government to take, it is a bit of a holding position just now. There will be another referendum on Scottish independence, of that I am fairly certain.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the legislation that created the Scottish Parliament reserved powers over constitutional issues to the UK, Ms Sturgeon argued that &#8220;is quite a vague term&#8221; and said that the issue had never been tested in court.</p>
<p>She also contrasted the &#8220;well informed&#8221; debate over Scotland&#8217;s future that took place in the run up to September 2014 with the Brexit campaign in the UK in 2016.</p>
<p>In the independence campaign, she said: &#8220;There was a wealth of information there for people to access and the population generally became incredibly well educated and well informed about the issues at stake.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was a debate that had a high level of understanding about the issues at stake. The EU referendum by contrast had none of that. The information that people had was reduced to a lie on the side of double decker bus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Sturgeon continued: &#8220;As I look ahead to the possibility of another referendum on Scottish independence, people often say to me &#8216;you&#8217;ll try to run it like the EU referendum and get people to vote purely on emotion and keep it a fact free zone&#8217;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I fervently hope for the independence of my country. I wouldn&#8217;t want it to be won on the basis of a campaign that was as dishonest as the EU referendum campaign.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been absolutely crystal clear if people in Scotland are to have a choice again, it must be a genuinely informed choice and that means in this context that the terms of Brexit must be clear for people to make a judgment about , but also the opportunities and challenges &#8211; because there are both &#8211; of independence must equally be clear.&#8221;</p>
<p>For that to happen Ms Sturgeon says a second independence referendum should be held between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. &#8220;We had a referendum on independence less than three years ago,&#8221; Ms Sturgeon said.<br />
&#8220;That&#8217;s why some people in Scotland entirely understandably are reluctant to have another one in the next two years.</p>
<p>&#8220;However if we don&#8217;t give people in Scotland a choice we will have to accept a course of action determined by a UK Government most people in Scotland didn&#8217;t vote for, a course which will be deeply damaging to our economy and to our society, perhaps for decades, possibly for generations to come.&#8221;</p>
<p>And while Liberal Democrats are calling for a second vote on the UK&#8217;s EU membership once the terms of the Brexit deal are known, Ms Sturgeon said she did &#8220;not see where the coalition of support could come from for that&#8221;.</p>
<p>She stated: &#8220;This is a prediction that may turn out to be wrong &#8211; I don&#8217;t think there will be a second referendum on EU membership in the UK.&#8221;</p>
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