NICOLA STURGEON will push for a second independence referendum before Britain leaves the EU, the First Minister announced yesterday.

Her predecessor Alex Salmond said the issue had been “settled for a generation” when voters rejected independence by a 55 to 45 per cent margin in 2014.

But Ms Sturgeon said there had been a “significant and material change in the circumstances in which Scotland voted against independence” in the wake of Thursday’s Leave vote.