Nicola Sturgeon reveals date she wants new Scottish referendum as she mounts fresh independence push

NICOLA Sturgeon today mounted a court bid to force a second independence referendum next year. 

The First Minister ambushed Boris Johnson with plans to hold the second vote on October 19, 2023.

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She wrote to the PM demanding he grant her another ballot and accused him of holding Scottish democracy "prisoner".

No vote can take place without Westminster's say so, and the PM has repeatedly swatted away Ms Sturgeon's relentless calls for another crack.

But the Nat leader also asked the Supreme Court to rule whether she could hold a vote without Westminster's consent.

Ms Sturgeon wants the question to be the same as the failed 2014 referendum: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

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Downing Street swatted away her demands and insisted "now is not the time" for another poll.

Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross blasted the First Minister's "selfish obsession with another decisive referendum".

Labour's Anas Sarwar piled in: "The pandemic Nicola that said she wanted us to pull us through is gone and the partisan Nicola Sturgeon that wants to divide our country is back."

Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton asked Ms Sturgeon why her "fixation with breaking up the United Kingdom will always trump the needs of the people in the country".

Ms Sturgeon said: "My determination is to secure a process that allows the people of Scotland, whether yes, no or yet to be decided, to express their views in a legal, constitutional referendum so the majority view can be established fairly and democratically.

"The steps I am setting out today seek to achieve that."