First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that she would be open to forming a "progressive alternative to the Tories" with other parties if the election delivers a hung parliament.
"That's why in the final few days before polling day I'll be campaigning alongside 30 hardworking SNP candidates standing up for communities across Scotland".
Nicola Sturgeon in the Drawing Room in Bute House, Edinburgh.
Labour opposes a second referendum, although party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would not block one "if the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people want it".
Like Mr Corbyn she ruled out a formal coalition if the result was not in Theresa May's favour - but said the SNP could work with other left-leaning parties on a case-by-case basis.
'We were then told that the United Kingdom is a family of nations and Scotland's voice would be heard, that the Prime Minister wouldn't trigger Article 50 until there had been a United Kingdom position.
Sturgeon admitted there had been "a significant narrowing of the polls" but said she thought the Conservatives were still on track to win the election.
"But voting Liberal Democrat in these key Liberal Democrat-SNP marginals could cancel that referendum".
Pressed on the date, she added: 'Look, you're putting arbitrary dates in my. you know, I believe Scotland will be independent, I've always believed that'.
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The idea of a so-called progressive alliance involving Labour and the SNP in the event of a hung parliament is "absolute nonsense", Alistair Darling has said.
A spokesman for Scottish Labour said: "Support for the SNP is on the slide thanks to the threat of a second independence referendum".
The Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, dismissed the Labour surge in the polls, saying it was part of a media narrative to portray the race as close.
She said: "The point of principle for me is the end of the process".
Both parties have ruled out a formal coalition deal should the election on 8 June not produce a clear victor.
"I don't envisage any form of coalition, but on an issue by issue basis to put forward progressive policies and see a progressive agenda", she told BBC Radio on Friday.
'But I've also said very clearly in this election, that albeit the polls have narrowed, I still think the likelihood is the Tories will win this election, but it's no longer inevitable that Theresa May will have a bigger majority and Scotland could stop that happening'.
And he even dodged questions over whether he would invite Sinn Fein MPs to sit in Parliament for the first ever time in return for supporting a minority Labour government.
She said the only way to "fightback against the SNP" was to vote for the Conservatives.
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