The demand comes as UK Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to trigger two years of formal talks to leave the European Union, following the UK public’s 51.9% to 48.1% “Brexit” vote on 23 June. “If Scotland is to have a real choice — when the terms of Brexit are known but before it is too late to choose our own course — then that choice must be offered between autumn next year and the spring of 2019,” Sturgeon said.

Sturgeon,