14 September 2026 · Today's edition

Devolved leaders sign pact in Cardiff to demand independence referendums from Westminster

How the world covered it

🇬🇧BBC

First ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to meet in Cardiff

🇮🇪The Journal

Sinn Féin's O'Neill and other UK nationalist leaders to jointly push Westminster for referendums

🇬🇧The National

Fears over 'dark money' funding hard-right groups in Scotland

🇩🇪Bild

Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland want independence: Is the United Kingdom breaking up now?

Schottland, Wales, Nordirland wollen Unabhängigkeit: Zerbricht jetzt das Vereinigte Königreich?

The split UK outlets frame it as internal politics while Irish, German and Russian coverage treat the same pact as a direct threat to the United Kingdom's survival.

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