A US-BORN professor last night called for Scotland to "have the right to choose" its own future during a passionate Debate Night contribution. 

Professor Joe Goldblatt spoke in favour of a second Scottish independence during BBC Scotland's flagship debate programme, which saw Labour's Monica Lennon, Scottish Tory Oliver Mundell and award-winning author Darren McGarvey take part. 

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Goldblatt, emeritus professor of planned events at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University, was one of a number of audience members to take aim at Mundell's indyref2 stance. The Scottish Tories outright reject a second vote being held, despite recent polls suggesting support for both a referendum and Yes are in the lead.

Addressing the room during the indyref2 debate, the academic said: “My name is Professor Joe Goldblatt, and I was one of the 500 immigrants in this room that the First Minister reassured: ‘This is our country.’

“And therefore because this is my country, and I am now a Scottish citizen, I believe in a democracy we should have the right to choose every day of our lives.”

The professor received a large round of applause for the comments. 

He wasn't the only audience member to attack the Scottish Tories' opposition to a fresh referendum being held.

Another guest accused Mundell, the former Scottish secretary's son, of typifying Tory "arrogance" with his stance.

He told the MSP: "It’s the arrogance – this attitude that we don’t know what we’re talking about. If we want to choose independence, if we want a referendum to actually say … it doesn’t automatically mean there will be independence.

"But the fact that you sit there and say ‘I know what you think’ – you don’t know what I think. You probably don’t even care what I think."

The Debate Night episode saw a number of other topics brought up, including drug deaths, LGBT education and the coronavirus.