Plans for IndyRef2 off as SNP suffers shock defeat

The First Minister's bombshell claim suggests that Jeremy Corbyn's party could help the SNP set up a re-run of the vote on separation.

"Nicola Sturgeon wants a referendum in 16 months' time".

Turning her attention specifically to Labour, the first minister insisted she has more in common with Corbyn than his counterpart in Scotland, Dugdale, who has previously been critical of Corbyn and supported his rival, Owen Smith, in last year's leadership election.

It is being fought on a specific Scottish issue - independence - and voting preferences are being influenced by the question of a second referendum.

"You've changed your mind but why should everybody else in Scotland be denied a choice?" You have to go back to 1992 for the last time they won more than a single seat in Scotland. We have to wait and see how things shake out.

Independence remains the defining issue - almost three years after Scotland voted by 55 per cent to remain a part of the United Kingdom.

"We know Theresa May doesn't just want to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union, but she's intent on pursuing an extreme Brexit that will take us out of the single market as well", Sturgeon told AFP.

Asked if she could provide exact details of the conversation, the Lothians MSP replied: "I've told you everything that I could recollect about it".

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She warned the pro-Union electorate that every seat Ms Sturgeon party takes will "be hailed as a ringing endorsement" for separation.

In recent times the SNP has been nearly unrivalled in Scotland, sweeping up seats.

To say the least, Scottish Labour's team have found that vexing.

"Kezia Dugdale has spent this campaign claiming she opposes a second independence referendum, now we learn she's been having private chats with Nicola Sturgeon about her support for it".

For the SNP, the worry is less about Labour losing nationally than Labour's performance in Scotland. I do not see the urgency or the need for an independence referendum.

Earlier on Wednesday, at his own rally in Glasgow, Corbyn said: "Our party is not doing deals, we're not offering anything other than us, our manifesto, our principles, and our programme".

And in the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire seat at Holyrood seat, being contested at a by-election, Alex Salmond's sister Gail Hendry faces the daunting task of trying to overturn the 7,736-vote majority Mr Lamont secured for the Tories over the SNP a year ago.

"If you lend the SNP your vote to keep the Tories out then you can be assured that you will be electing SNP MPs who might not agree with him on everything, but who agree with Jeremy Corbyn on more than Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Labour agree with Jeremy Corbyn".