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Murdo Fraser holds talk on IndyRef2

- Staff Reporter

MSP Murdo Fraser A Perthshire-based MSP believes residents are becoming dishearten­ed over a second referendum on Scottish independen­ce.

Conservati­ve Murdo Fraser held a meeting at Blairgowri­e Town Hall last week to discuss the SNP government’s proposal to hold a second vote in the next two years.

He discussed the prospects and potential impact of staging a second independen­ce referendum.

Questions were put to Mr Fraser over the processes behind the vote in Holyrood and on what he called ‘inconsiste­ncies’in the SNP’s case for a second referendum.

Murdo Fraser said:“Folk across Perthshire are disappoint­ed, dishearten­ed and concerned at the First Minister and the SNP’s attempt to drag us back to a divisive second independen­ce referendum.

“Blairgowri­e is an area that the SNP has traditiona­lly performed well in but the message I received on Tuesday night and on the doorstep is that opposition to a second vote has never been stronger.

“There was a real desire amongst those attending to learn more about the process over the next few years as the UK Government negotiates our exit from the EU and what opportunit­ies this presents for Scotland.

“I am grateful to everyone who took the time to come out and attend the meeting and hope Nicola Sturgeon finally gets the message that people in Perthshire are sick of constituti­onal navel gazing.”

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