SNP's overwhelming win in Scotland paves away for fresh independence vote

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the crushing victory of her Scottish National Party in the UK election demands another independence referendum.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon celebrates with supporters in Glasgow. Source: Press Association

Scotland must be allowed to hold another referendum on its place inside the United Kingdom following the crushing victory of the nationalists in the election, leader Nicola Sturgeon says.

The exit poll predicted that the Scottish National Party would win 55 of the 59 seats in Scotland.

"There is a mandate now to offer the people of Scotland the choice over our own future," Ms Sturgeon told Sky News early on Friday.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon casts her vote in the 2019 General Election. She says Boris Johnson doesn't have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU. Source: Press Association

"There is a clear desire and endorsement for the notion that Scotland should not be landed with a Boris Johnson government and ripped out of Europe against our own will.

"Boris Johnson may have a mandate to take England out of the European Union. He emphatically does not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the European Union.

“Scotland must have a choice over our own future."