THIS was meant to be the week when a proud, sovereign nation served notice that it wanted to leave the overbearing, unrepresentative union to which it had long been shackled. And so it was-but not in quite the way that Theresa May had imagined. Britain's prime minister had planned to trigger Article 50 of the European Union treaty, beginning the two-year process of Britain's exit from the eu. But she was forced to delay her plans when Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, upstaged her by announcing that she would seek a new referendum on Scottish independence.
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