CALLS for a Scottish referendum have sparked fury in Worcester - with a leading UKIP figure telling Nicola Sturgeon to "get back in your box".

Peter Jewell, the party's deputy treasurer, says the sensational Brexit outcome cannot be allowed to trigger the break-up of the UK.

His view has been backed by a Scottish Worcester politician, who insists his motherland would be making a terrible mistake staging a fresh ballot, calling it "a deep concern".

Ms Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), is trying to get a new independence referendum organised after her country voted Remain last week, in contrast to England which plumped for Brexit.

She has travelled to Brussels today for emergency talks with Jean-Claude Juncker over Scotland keeping its EU status, despite international lawyers labelling it impossible.

Mr Jewell is UKIP leader Nigel Farage's figurehead in Worcestershire, and told the Worcester News the duo have spoken at length about the Brexit fallout.

He said: "In Scotland their vote was 2.6 million people, and of that 1.6 million voted Remain.

"If we assume that the UK has around 65 million people, that equates to 0.025 per cent of the total population.

"I say to Ms Sturgeon, get back in your box - that is why you will not get another referendum, and that is why Scotland would not get into the EU on its own."

Worcester councillor Alan Feeney said he was worried a new Scottish independence referendum would leave Britain "on the brink of yet another divisive and unpleasant" campaign.

The Conservative hails from a town called Haddington, which is near Edinburgh.

"I'm deeply concerned that we face to prospect of another Scottish independence referendum," he said.

"At a time where the UK should be pulling together, we are on the brink of yet another divisive and unpleasant campaign fuelled by militant nationalists and political opportunists north of the border.

"As a proud Scot and equally proud Briton, I would urge people on all sides of the EU referendum process to treat each other with respect and work together to make Britain the place we all want it to be."

It also emerged today that a series of EU member state governments have indicated they will not hold direct talks with the SNP about protecting Scotland's status in the bloc.

The German Government said it was an "internal" British issue.

Ms Sturgeon’s official spokesman has called the Brexit fallout "completely unchartered territory in a situation which is not of our making", saying the Scots overwhelmingly voted to stay in the EU.

Scotland is the UK's most pro-EU country, with 62 per cent backing Remain last Thursday.

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