Labour has been accused of an “astonishing display of arrogance” after a senior UK Cabinet minister said a second Scottish independence referendum will not be permitted even if the SNP wins a majority in next May’s Holyrood election.

Scottish First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney has been relying on what he said was a precedent established after his party’s 2011 victory, which led directly to the 2014 referendum.

But Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Thursday that even if the SNP wins more than half the seats at Holyrood next year, there will not be another vote.

Ms Reeves told Radio Scotland’s Breakfast programme: “I’m going to be very clear, there won’t be another referendum.

“When there was a referendum just a few years ago it was said that this was a once-in-a-generation refere

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