UK PM refutes Scotland independence debate

London, Jan 29 : UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Scotland independence debate was “irrelevant” to most Scottish people, urging the people across the country to come together to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Johnson made the remarks during his day-long trip to Scotland on Thursday, which widely seen as part of a “charm offensive” following polls that indicated a rise in support for Scotland’s independence after Brexit, reports Xinhua news agency.
“I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people,” he told the BBC.
“We don’t actually know what that referendum would set out to achieve… We don’t know what the point of it would be — what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office,” he said.
“Nobody will tell us what it’s all meant to be about.” The Prime Minister stressed that the priority right now should be “fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together”, rather than arguing about the Constitution.