LONDON/, EDINBURGH SCOTLAND ¨C When 3.6 million Scots voted Thursday on whether to leave or stay within the United Kingdom, they were answering one simple question: Should Scotland be an independent country?
But for a time some politicians on both sides of the debate wanted to include a third choice on the ballot: maximum devolution of powers to Scotland within Britain, or so-called devo-max. Even Alex Salmond, Scotland¡¯s first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, backed including such an alternative, arguing that he was ¡°not for limiting the choices of the Scottish people.¡±
British Prime Minister David Cameron and many of Salmond¡¯s SNP colleagues, though, were against the idea. Scots, Cameron said at the time, would be faced with ¡°what I¡¯ve always wanted, which is one single question. Not two questions, not devo-max, not different options; a very simple, single question.¡±
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