The Scottish First Minister said Ms May's decision to call for the election, which must secure support of two-thirds of MPs in a vote scheduled for Wednesday in the Commons, was a political move to capitalise on the "utter disarray" in the Labour Party.
Ms Sturgeon said: “She is clearly betting that the Tories can win a bigger majority in England given the utter disarray in the Labour Party.
“That makes it all the more important that Scotland is protected from a Tory Party which now sees the chance of grabbing control of government for many years to come and moving the UK further to the right - forcing through a hard Brexit and imposing deeper cuts in the process.
"That means that this will be - more than ever before - an election about standing up for Scotland, in the face of a right-wing, austerity-obsessed Tory government with no mandate in Scotland but which now thinks it can do whatever it wants and get away with it."
/The Independent/
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