Scotland

The Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has accused Theresa May of arrogance, as she spoke to a final rally of supporters in Leith, declaring that the election is an opportunity to stop the Tories in their tracks. Four million Scottish voters will be heading to the polls tomorrow.

Election issues are debated by one of Scotland’s most eminent cultural figures, the crime writer and independence campaigner Val McDermid, and the new Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Barney Crockett, who’s also the former Labour leader of Aberdeen City Council and opposes independence.

We are focusing on the final hours of a Scottish campaign that is far more about Brexit, and potentially affecting the balance at Westminster, than about independence, although that remains in many voters’ minds. I’ve been taking the temperature in the granite city of Aberdeen.

The latest poll of voting intentions in Scotland puts Labour and the Conservatives running neck-and-neck behind the SNP. Both have 25%, the SNP 43% and the Lib Dems just 5 per cent.

The Scottish National Party seem to have put the brakes on their drive for another referendum on independence, shunting it down their agenda until “the end of the Brexit process”. Launching the party’s manifesto today, Nicola Sturgeon said any attempts by the Conservatives to block Scotland having a choice would be “democratically unsustainable”.

The UK and Scottish Governments are at loggerheads tonight over a second independence referendum. This afternoon the Scottish Parliament demanded a vote within two years.

SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford on a second Scottish independence referendum.

The First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that the will of the Scottish Parliament will prevail – a second referendum on independence will be held.

Theresa May hit back at Nicola Sturgeon and told her that another referendum on Scottish independence was off the cards…indefinitely. The SNP called it a democratic outrage! May v Sturgeon: the gloves are off but what next?

Theresa May has claimed that Scotland will leave the EU whether or not it becomes an independent nation, insisting it was important for the UK to come together as a country. But a new poll suggests unity is not what many Scots want, either with Britain, or even necessarily with the EU.

Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop.

Here in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland must be offered a “real choice”:  whether to join the rest of the UK in what she called a Hard Brexit, or work out its own relationship with Europe, inside the EU.

This moment could mark not just the beginning of the Brexit process, but the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she’s preparing to hold another independence vote, declaring it is the only way to protect Scottish interests after Brexit.