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THERE can be no understating the lasting impact of the devastating vote to leave the EU .

The result sent shockwaves around the world, toppled the Prime Minister and reopened some very awkward constitutional questions.

Britain has spoken – but it’s not with a single voice.

In Scotland, we voted to remain and we voted comprehensively so.

Every council area said Yes to Europe, even if some were very close calls.

Faced with being pulled out of the EU against our wishes, Nicola Sturgeon had to make a bold intervention.

And she didn’t pull any punches.

Flanked by the blue and gold flag of the EU, Sturgeon announced that all options for Scotland are now on the table.

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And those options include another referendum on independence.

The First Minister is right to raise the prospect of a second Indyref, no matter how weary we all are of the constant constitutional war of attrition.

She is right because for many Scots yesterday, the overriding reaction to the leave vote was one of disbelief.

When Scots can’t even be bothered celebrating David Cameron resigning, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

It wasn’t just the stock market crash, the run on the pound and the months and years of political chaos stretching out ahead that caused dismay.

It was the complete sense of bewilderment about why it had happened.

Viewed from north of the Border, much of the Brexit debate has appeared beamed in from another universe.

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It was dominated by a Tory civil war and obsessed with an issue – immigration – that doesn’t carry as much weight here.

Cameron brought this mess on himself … and all of us. He asked the question to appease his Eurosceptic fringe. It backfired in spectacular fashion.

(Image: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire)

Now the prospect of Scots returning a Yes vote in a second referendum is very much alive.

After all, Cameron previously insisted that only by staying part of Britain could Scotland guarantee its place in the EU.

It’s an argument that has come back to bite unionists on the behind.

Many of those who voted to stay in the UK two years ago did so because they wanted to reject a narrow nationalism and its insular view of the world.

But yesterday’s result recast independence as the positive, outward-looking option for Scotland. Now the dice have been rolled and we live with the consequences.

Scotland is facing up to the reality that it means another look at our relationship with the rest of the UK.

This morning, Scotland and England have never felt politically further apart.