SCOTTISH Labour will not back the Scottish Government's Referendums Bill at Holyrood this week, the BBC has reported.
Several high-profile figures in the party have come out in support of holding an independence referendum since Labour's disastrous election performance last week.
Ian Murray, in Edinburgh South, is now the sole Labour MP left in Scotland.
Since Thursday, leading Labour figure and Cosla president Alison Evison, MSP Neil Findlay and shadow health secretary Monica Lennon have all suggested a changing position on Scottish independence.
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Findlay and Lennon indicated they would like to see the decision on whether a new referendum is held made in Scotland, not at Westminster.
The shadow health secretary said: "The future of Scotland must be decided by the people of Scotland."
However, the BBC's Kirsten Campbell has said the party will not be backing the Referendums Bill when it goes to a vote at Holyrood on Thursday.
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On Twitter, she wrote: "Scottish Labour will not back the referendums bill at Holyrood on Thursday. The party believes having an independence referendum in 2020, amidst the Brexit chaos is the wrong thing to do.
"However Labour will review the position as part of the post mortem into the disastrous election result in the new year and will take whatever policy is agreed into the 2021 Holyrood election."
More to follow.
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