She added: "I've been clear talking about a second independence referendum in Scotland at this time".
The second mandate was given when a majority of MSPs at Holyrood backed Ms Sturgeon's plans for another vote, it adds.
The SNP leader told Sky News at her party's manifesto launch in Perth that the country could not end up in a position "where we have no alternative but to accept a damaging Brexit that is wreaking havoc on our economy and our public services".
The SNP's policies would "restore fairness" to the social security system, she said "Make no mistake - the Tories have sought to undermine faith in the welfare state itself".
The Scottish Lib Dems meanwhile are on four per cent of the vote, down from the 7.5 per cent they secured in 2015 and the 7.8 per cent they secured in the constituency vote of last year's Scottish Parliamentary election.
Scotland voted to remain in the U.K.in a 2014 referendum and also to retain European Union membership previous year.
Sturgeon said that if the SNP held on to a majority of Scottish seats that would make it "democratically unsustainable" for a Conservative government at Westminster to block Scottish demands for a referendum.
The National also reports how the first minister responded to questions from journalists by indicating that the referendum may be delayed past her original timescale and in line with any shifts in the Brexit timetable.
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In September she had a +16 rating, but this is now down 43 points to -27, with nearly twice as many disapproving of how she has done her job compared to those approving of it.
The first minister has spent six months arguing that a new vote on independence should take place between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of 2019 when, she has claimed, the shape of the Brexit deal will be known but before the United Kingdom has left the European Union. "If that changes then of course we will have to change our timing in light of that".
"What I'm saying is what we're going to do at Westminster if we're elected and we're going to vote to end austerity".
Scottish Tory deputy leader Jackson Carlaw today said there has been a "change in atmosphere" in Scottish politics as he insisted there are several seats where there is a "very strong prospect" of a Conservative victory. "Nobody is fooled any more".
"Strip away the bluster and it's written down in black and white - she wants to drag Scotland back to another referendum by as early as next autumn".
"We have seen it in the a year ago".
A trainee solicitor is bidding to become one of Parliament's youngest MPs in the 2017 General Election. She has simultaneously described the UK Labour leader as weak on issues such as Brexit, while agreeing to a progressive alliance on pensions and pay. Dugdale said SNP claims that it could meaningfully oppose austerity were hollow.
"She can talk about a 50p top rate of income tax all she likes, but the reality is that the SNP voted against this in the Scottish parliament".
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