Alex Salmond attacks 'artificial' Supreme Court after judges quashed independence referendum plan
Alex Salmond has launched an attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court after it ruled against Nicola Sturgeon's plan to hold a second referendum on independence later this year.
And he accused the Supreme Court of being "a recent and artificial political construct of largely self-appointed and totally self-interested judiciary". Judges in London were last year asked to rule on whether Holyrood had the required legal powers to hold a referendum without prior approval from Westminster.
The result was accepted by Sturgeon, who said at the time: "While disappointed by it I respect ruling of the Supreme Court - it doesn't make law, only interprets it."He said: "This period will be seen not only as the year of three Prime Ministers and a Royal Family at war but the time when the British state fatally mortgaged its democratic credentials by denying Scotland’s rights.
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