In the beginning Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the media at the SEC Centre in Glasgow during counting for the 2019 General Election.
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no mandate to deliver Scotland out of the European Union and demanded a fresh independence vote on its place in the United Kingdom.
With all of the Scottish occurs now counted, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won 48 of the country’s 59 available seats — 13 more than the pro-independence body won in 2017. The Conservative Party, while winning a large majority across the whole of the United Kingdom, actually late seven seats in Scotland and now only has six MPs (Member of Parliament) in the country.
The Liberal Democrats took four seats and Labour, until recently a controlling power in Scottish politics, just one.
In the aftermath of the result, Sturgeon conceded that not everybody that voted for SNP longing also support independence, but said Scotland was clearly owed the right to choose its future.
Speaking to BBC News, Sturgeon conveyed: “Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU but he must accept that I have a mandate to give Scotland a choosing for an alternative future.”
There is a mandate now to offer the people of Scotland the choice over our own future.
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In a separate interview to Sky News, Sturgeon reinforced her message.
“There is a clear desire and endorsement for the notion that Scotland should not be debarked with a Boris Johnson government and ripped out of Europe against our own will,” she said.
It is understood that Sturgeon hand down now seek a “section 30” order from U.K. leader Johnson. If granted that would authorize the Scottish management to hold another a vote on leaving the U.K.
Despite the SNP gaining a swathe of votes in Scotland, transferring that power from Westminster may develop hard to secure. Before the election, Johnson said he would reject any such request and as the results became take a run-out powder a eliminate early Friday morning, Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove appeared to reinforce that view.
“I don’t credit that a second independence referendum would be right for Scotland or right for the United Kingdom,” said Gove.
Scotland, role of the United Kingdom for almost 313 years, rejected independence by 55% to 45% in a 2014 referendum.