Scotland wants Poles to stay after Brexit: Minister
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
28.03.2017 14:58
The Scottish government wants Poles to stay in the country after Brexit, Alasdair Allan, Scotland’s Minister for International Development and Europe, has told Poland’s PAP news agency.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Photo: EPA/ROBERT PERRY
Allan said there are about 90,000 Poles in Scotland, adding that they “play an enormously positive role in our society, our culture and our economy.”
The minister also said that he hopes “the UK government will finally do the decent thing and tell people from other countries living in the UK that their future is secure.”
The United Kingdom as a whole voted last year to leave the EU, but Scotland, one of the UK's four constituent parts, voted to stay.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for a second independence referendum, after Scots rejected independence by 55 to 45 percent in a referendum in 2014.
Her Scottish National Party argues that the circumstances have changed since then because of Brexit.
The Scottish parliament is on Tuesday expected to back Sturgeon’s call for second independence referendum.
(tf/pk)