We may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. Nicola Sturgeon is facing First Minister's Questions today as she urges Scottish people to follow Covid guidance amid fears of the Omicron variant. She has demanded that employers bring back the home working policies that were put in place at the height of the lockdown and warned that new restrictions could be imposed at a day's notice. The First Minister has warned that she will carry out daily rather than weekly reviews of Covid rules and will be ready to make difficult and unpopular decisions. Ms Sturgeon hopes that the recent concerns about Omicron won't scupper her push for Scottish independence.
Last week, she said: Next year, COVID permitting, as we emerge from winter into spring, the campaign to persuade a majority of people in Scotland that our future will be more secure as an independent nation resumes in earnest. I will initiate the process necessary to allow a referendum before the end of 2023 in the course of next year. She will have to deal with criticism over the economic challenges that independence will raise, as Stephen Kerr tells Express.co. Over 60 percent of everything we make ends up being sold in the UK, according to the Tory MSP. Ms Sturgeon would be intent on making a customs border in Carlisle or Berwick. It would be outrageous and would impoverish Scotland.
Andrew Wilson, one of their own MSPs, wrote a report on the economic impact of independence that was buried by the SNP. In February, Mr Wilson warned the Scottish First Minister not to brush over the downsides and hard work of independence. He added that the nationalists had yet to produce a prospectus that is honest and clear about transition, timings and trade-offs, as well as positive about its vision In August, and warned of an early push to establish a separate Scottish currency if the country was to become independent and risk capital flight. Mr Kerr believes that independence could lead to a variety of negative economic consequences, including tax hikes or spending cuts. READ MORE: SNP are not prioritising the recovery of Covid '' LibDem leader slams Sturgeon