Scotland's First Minister warns Boris Johnson he cannot keep Scotland in the United Kingdom against the country's will, after the re-elected Prime Minister opposes a request for a second independence referendum.
Ms Sturgeon said on Twitter she had told the Prime Minister her political mandate to give people a choice must be respected,"just as he expects his mandate to be respected"
"You cannot hold Scotland in the union against its will ... If the United Kingdom is to continue it can only be by consent. And if Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union then he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide." "Scotland very clearly wants a different future to the one that's been chosen by much of the rest of the UK, and Scotland wants to have the right to choose its own future," she said.Meanwhile, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised on Sunday for his party's crushing defeat in the British general election, which failed to resonate with the party's working-class base, as"one of hope rather than fear".
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