NICOLA Sturgeon has said she is 100 per cent certain Scotland will become independent in her lifetime.
The former first minister efforts to secure a second referendum ended in failure – but Sturgeon has repeatedly claimed she is convinced she will live to see Scottish independence.
The claim came during an interview with Glad Radio, a community station based in her Glasgow Southside constituency.
Sturgeon has passed vetting as a candidate for the next election, though the MSP has yet to confirm whether she will defend her seat.
Asked whether she believed she would live to see Scotland becoming an independent country, Sturgeon said: “100%, yes.”
She has given similar answers in other recent interviews, including an in-depth discussion with the Financial Times.
In that piece, published in January, Sturgeon said she believed an independence referendum was “off the radar” though maintained Scotland would leave the Union “in our lifetimes”, adding: “Sometimes things can feel really stuck, then suddenly they’re not.”
After the Brexit vote in 2016, Sturgeon claimed Britain leaving the European Union was grounds for a second referendum, an argument rejected by Westminster.
She then staked her hopes on taking a case to the Supreme Court arguing for Scotland should have the right to hold another vote, which was dismissed by judges.
This gambit was criticised by Alex Salmond at the time, with Sturgeon’s former mentor saying that even if the bid had been successful it would have amounted to “a glorified opinion poll not an exercise in Scottish sovereignty”.
