The Scottish National Party (SNP) could take back all but one of the districts it lost two years ago, based on an exit poll and early results. Johnson, like former British prime minister Theresa May, has consistently resisted pressure from the SNP-led administration in Edinburgh for another independence vote. Sturgeon made stopping Brexit and giving Scotland the right to dictate its own future the cornerstone of her party’s campaign. It held two more with increased majorities, suggesting that the exit poll projections would be borne out by results. If the result is broadly correct, more SNP supporters will be agitating for Sturgeon to demand an independence vote regardless of whether the British government acquiesces to one, a legal requirement.

Source: Taipei Times December 13, 2019 16:06 UTC