Nicola Sturgeon has told the Prime Minister that a second vote on Scottish independence should be a “matter of when – not if”.
The SNP leader, who has just led her party to a fourth successive Holyrood election victory, made her position clear in telephone call with Boris Johnson.
It comes after Scotland returned a majority of MSPs supporting independence to Holyrood, with 64 SNP representatives and eight from the Scottish Greens.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ms Sturgeon on the phone on Sunday (Tony Melville/PA)
However, Ms Sturgeon and the SNP failed to win an overall majority in the Parliament – with a key ally of Boris Johnson arguing that this showed Scots were not “agitating” for a referendum.