SCOTTISH Tory MSP Oliver Mundell was last night accused of typifying Tory "arrogance" with his stance on a second Scottish independence referendum.
During an episode of BBC Scotland's Debate Night - which SNP depute Keith Brown, Labour MSP Monica Lennon and author Darren McGarvey also took part in - an audience member challenged Mundell's stance, which rules out indyref2 being held.
Mundell, whose father is the former Scottish secretary, was called out for the position.
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Recent polls have shown more Scots support indyref2 being held in the next few years than oppose it, with a number of post-Brexit studies putting Yes at a majority.
Last month the Prime Minister rejected the Scottish Government's request for a Section 30 order, which would allow a referendum on Scotland's Union membership to be held legally.
“You don’t know what I think, you probably don’t even care what I think.”
— BBC Debate Night (@bbcdebatenight) February 26, 2020
This audience member says the Conservatives’ “arrogance” is stopping them from accepting that Scotland wants another independence referendum #bbcdn pic.twitter.com/ZTxid1yKIZ
Addressing Mundell, the audience member said: "Well Oliver actually typifies what all the Tories are saying. It’s the arrogance – this attitude that we don’t know what we’re talking about. If we want to choose independence, if we want a referendum to actually say … it doesn’t automatically mean there will be independence.
"But the fact that you sit there and say ‘I know what you think’ – you don’t know what I think. You probably don’t even care what I think."
Mundell replied to say he did care, but was cut off.
The guest responded: “I’m sorry if you do care, then give people the opportunity to speak about it.”
The Debate Night episode saw the topic of Scottish independence brought up a few times, while drug deaths and coronavirus also came up during the episode.
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