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EDINBURGH, July 21 (Xinhua) -- A leading minister in the Scottish government has described how Britain's Brexit negotiations has plunged Scotland into uncharted waters, and re-ignited the independence debate.
In a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua Blake Comeau Womens Jersey , Mike Russell, the Scottish government's minister for UK negotiations on Scotland's Place in Europe, gave his views on what Brexit means for his part of Britain.
Russell, a politician in the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), led by Nicola Sturgeon Alexander Kerfoot Womens Jersey , is a key supporter of Scotland gaining its independence from the United Kingdom.
Recently Sturgeon announced the SNP's demand for a new independence referendum in Scotland would be shelved until after the completion of Brexit negotiations with the European Union.
The move, insisted Russell, was neither a u-turn nor a retreat from the so called IndyRef2 debate.
"It is a compromise position to enable progress to be made on both sides. It's a generous compromise position, and as minister responsible for negotiating with the UK government that is how I have presented it. However, we haven't yet had a reciprocal gesture from the UK government Sven Andrighetto Womens Jersey ," said Russell.
The minister said: "We are in uncharted waters in terms of democracy and politics. Scotland voted against leaving the EU and that has changed everything that's happening.It is a very volatile and insecure period.
"The First Minister's (Sturgeon) view correctly is that the people of Scotland deserve to be given a choice between Brexit, which they did not vote for, and another future. And the only conceivable other future is independence," he added.
He believes that the right thing to do is to wait and see what happens and then a decision can be taken on when people should be given the chance to choose. "That's very much in keeping with the approach we've taken to Brexit which is to endeavor to find a compromise."
That means the Westminster government accepting that the people of England voted to leave the EU, but also needing to accept that the people of Scotland didn't vote to leave "and therefore there needs to be a compromise".
Asked whether the inter-dependence is much better than independence for Scotland Tyson Barrie Womens Jersey , Russell said that in his opinion, independence is also about interdependence.
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