"This would mean a radical reshaping of our country along federal lines where every component part of the United Kingdom – Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions – take more responsibility for what happens in their own communities, but where we still maintain the protection of being part of a greater whole as the UK," Dugdale said at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London, as quoted by The Guardian newspaper.
On June 23, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. While English voters largely backed leaving the bloc, voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland mostly voted "remain."
Following the referendum, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that Scotland would consider taking a vote on independence one more time after the September 2014 referendum, claiming that the Brexit referendum outcome neglected Scotland’s willingness to stay in the European Union.
