{"id":337609,"date":"2025-08-12T05:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:13:17","slug":"nicola-sturgeon-predicts-that-uk-will-no-longer-exist-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337609\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon predicts that UK will &#8216;no longer exist&#8217; in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The former first minister made the claim in her autobiography, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25381099.waterstones-selling-nicola-sturgeons-memoir-early\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which was released earlier than planned on Monday<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sturgeon said that her \u201clife has been about\u201d the campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish independence<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25381865.7-things-learnt-nicola-sturgeons-autobiography-frankly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seven things we learnt from Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;s autobiography Frankly<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Frankly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25059069.news-interviews-updates-snp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNP<\/a> MSP reflects at length on her failures to secure a second referendum and the intransigence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/uk-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Government<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On the book\u2019s final page, Sturgeon said: \u201cI still desperately want Scotland to be independent. I am also confident that it will happen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI predict that in 20 years, perhaps sooner, the UK in its current form will no longer exist. What will emerge in its place will be stronger, healthier and more democratic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAn independent Scotland, a more autonomous Wales and a reunified Ireland will join England, enjoying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25063718.dwp-news-interviews-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benefits<\/a> of the home rule it will gain as a result, in a new British Isles confederation of nations.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25380669.nicola-sturgeon-alex-salmond-did-not-read-2014-independence-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Salmond &#8216;did not read&#8217; 2014 Scottish independence paper, Nicola Sturgeon says<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said that \u201cnothing\u201d would stop her from \u201cplaying my part in trying to bring that about, adding: \u201cFor as long\u00a0as I have breath in my body, I will fight for a fair, equal, inclusive, outward-looking Scotland; an independent country, relatively small in size perhaps, but with the potential to make a big, positive impact on the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThat, after all, is what my life has been about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former first minister made the claim in her autobiography, which was released earlier than planned on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-337609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014087669511906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}