PoliticsTuesday briefing: How to understand Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s joint call for change

Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin have signed a memorandum calling on Westminster to prepare for and facilitate constitutional change in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The parties affirmed their countries’ right to seek independence; Scotland and Northern Ireland’s leaders called for immediate referendums, while Plaid Cymru offered no timetable.

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