Sunak pledges to work constructively with Scotland's leader

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Friday to work constructively with Scotland’s leer despite tensions over her ministration’s wish for a new independence referendum.

Sunak held private talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during his first visit to Scotland since taking power, saying that while y are “t going to agree on everything,” he believes re is scope for cooperation. Sturgeon’s relationship with Sunak’s two predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, h been frosty in light of Sturgeon’s demand for Scottish independence.

“What I want to do as prime minister of United Kingdom is work constructively with Scottish government to make a difference to people in Scotland,” Sunak told BBC. “We’ve got lots of challenges that we all face collectively around U.K., and where we can work toger and make a difference, we should.”

Sturgeon described ir meeting as having been “perfectly constructive and cordial.”

U.K. government said question of independence was settled in a 2014 referendum, when Scottish voters rejected referendum by a margin of 55% to 45%.

Sturgeon has argued situation has changed since n, and her semiautomous government has pushed for a new vote. But in vember, U.K. Supreme Court said her government didn’t have power to hold a new independence referendum without consent of U.K. government.