SNP MP fidgets during Question Time, when asked what currency Scotland would use if granted indepependence

Mild drama as an SNP MP Joanna Cherry found fidgeting while answering questions during a public session, when she was asked to tell the House the currency Scotland would use if it becomes independent

Nicola Sturgeon has relentlessly announced her desire to split Scotland from the UK, only if Theresa May fails or refuses to give any serious consideration to the future of the Scottish people in her Brexit deal in a last-ditch attempt to keep the country within the European Union.

But, during a grilling on Thursday’s Question Time, Ms Cherry was left flabbergasted by an apparently modest question by one audience member.

He asked the SNP’s Justice and Home Affairs spokesperson: “What currency are you going to use if you get your referendum and you leave the United Kingdom?

“What currency have you got? The groat is it? Or the pound, the Euro? Which currency are you going to use?”

Instead of answering the question being asked, Ms Cherry remains silent in a cringeworthy move as she turns to host David Dimbleby, who says: “Well I’ll have to let you answer that, is it the Euro you’re going for?”

From the look of things, it appears, Ms Cherry was not able to get her words out as she tries to respond: “Well… unlike… unlike, it’s perhaps…”.

But the on Thursday, the PM decisively vetoed the First Minister’s demand for another independence referendum for Scotland before Brexit. As she stated in strong terms that “now is not the time” to reopen the debate.

The PM’s comment further infuriated the Scottish First Minister further, who branded the decision a “democratic outrage”.

Ms Sturgeon told the BBC: “This is like winding the clock back to the bad old days of Margaret Thatcher.

"It is an argument for independence really in a nutshell, that Westminster thinks it has got the democratically elected mandate of the Scottish Government and the majority in the Scottish Parliament.”