Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launched a new independence drive on Friday, urging supporters to join the country’s “biggest ever political listening exercise” to gauge public appetite for a new referendum. Two years after Scots voted by 10 percentage points to reject independence, Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party (SNP) that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union had radically changed the debate. “This summer we witnessed seismic changes which will have a deep impact on our ambition for this country,” Sturgeon told an SNP gathering in Stirling. “The UK that existed before June 23 has fundamentally changed,” she said. The prospect of a long period of Conservative rule in Westminster – the main opposition Labour Party is currently embroiled in […]