FORMER Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of “running scared of the inevitable future of Scotland as an independent nation” after he refused to take part in a landmark BBC documentary on the 2014 indyref.
Yes/No – Inside The Indyref has been made for BBC Scotland by the filmmaker Paul Mitchell, whose work includes Inside Obama’s White House and The Death of Yugoslavia. It features candid interviews with George Osborne, Alex Salmond, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and Nicola Sturgeon. It reveals, among other things, that Osborne wanted to run the referendum from London like “what they’d do in Spain”, Jim Murphy wanted a vote in 2008 to “call the nationalists bluff” and that Unionist politicians thought Salmond didn’t really want a referendum.
Nicola Sturgeon told the programme – which is on the new BBC Scotland channel on Wednesday at 9pm – that it showed the Westminster politicians have “never understood the SNP”.
An SNP spokesperson said: “David Cameron may shy away from his political legacy on Brexit, but his refusal to talk about his part in the Scottish independence referendum shows he’s running scared of the inevitable future of Scotland as an independent nation. The former Prime Minister’s contribution to Scotland’s independence journey was governing with no regard for our nation’s interests – a cruel austerity agenda, cuts to Scotland’s block grant and wasting billions on hated nuclear weapons.
“His actions will most definitely have helped, not hindered, the case for Scottish independence.”
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