{"id":95565,"date":"2026-09-10T08:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95565"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:07:45","slug":"burnham-says-yes-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/10\/burnham-says-yes-to-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham says &#8216;Yes&#8217; to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/09\/09\/indyref-union-good-friday-agreement-majority-border-poll\/?status=Non-subs&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&amp;utm_campaign=MORN%20%2020260910%20%20JTI%20%20AL+CID_1a4a53fcba1ada3b33e562e85f2357dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> has noted this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andy Burnham has suggested that another Scottish independence referendum could be held if public opinion shows demand for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister told the Commons that the trigger for a separation vote was \u201cexactly the same situation in Scotland\u201d as in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the\u00a0Good Friday Agreement, there is a potential pathway for an Irish reunification poll. It states that a referendum should be staged if it \u201cappears likely\u201d that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote to leave the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scortland needs to hold him to that.<\/p>\n<p>A week next Thursday, then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Telegraph has noted this morning: Andy Burnham has suggested that another Scottish independence referendum could be held if public opinion shows demand for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/10\/burnham-says-yes-to-scotland\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95566,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95565\/revisions\/95566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}