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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon poses for a photograph with newly elected SNP MP's in front of the V&A Museum in Dundee, Scotland, Britain December 14, 2019. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
The SNP won 48 of Scotland’s 59 seats in the UK parliament in Thursday’s national election, prompting Sturgeon to step up her demands for another independence referendum. “I was firm with him that I have a mandate to offer people a choice. He reiterated his opposition to that,” Sturgeon told Skynews after visiting supporters in Dundee on Saturday.
Scots voted in an independence referendum in 2014 to remain in the United Kingdom, but they also voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum to stay in the European Union, while a majority of English and Welsh voters supported leaving the bloc.
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