Nicola Sturgeon to demand powers for 2020 referendum

SNP leader tells conference she will ask Westminster to transfer powers by end of year. Nicola Sturgeon has urged Scotland to “reclaim its independence”, confirming in an upbeat party conference address that she intends to hold a second independence referendum in 2020 and will demand that the Westminster government transfer the powers to do so by the end of this year. But Scotland’s first minister did not offer a practical alternative route to a referendum should the request fo