NICOLA STURGEON hopes to keep Scotland in the EU by calling a second independence referendum, but according to the former European Commission’s official representative in the UK, an independent Scotland would start life outside the bloc and be forced to join …

NICOLA STURGEON hopes to keep Scotland in the EU by calling a second independence referendum, but according to the former European Commission’s official representative in the UK, an independent Scotland would start life outside the bloc and be forced to join the queue for membership.