Global Development Minister Humza Yousaf also attended that meeting after holding talks with the UK Governments new Minister for Refugees, Richard Harrington, to discuss in detail the practical actions necessary to co-ordinate the arrival of refugees and set out the steps already taken by the Scottish Governments humanitarian task force.

The SNP leader is also concerned the outcome of the negotiations will have a impact on the UK Government’s stance in the forthcoming in/out referendum on the UK’s membership of EU. “Independence won’t happen just because its supporters become more impatient for change”, she noted.

“Right now, you are living on borrowed time”.

Ms Sturgeon said the SNP’s rise was being driven by the government’s failure to deliver on a promise of more powers for Scotland as well as pushing ahead with austerity and renewing Britain’s nuclear weapons arsenal despite opposition in Scotland, where it is based.

She also argued Britain should opt in to a controversial European Union (EU) scheme to resettle more than 100,000 refuges around the continent, saying it was “desperately needed”. It is true now and it will be true at all times in the future.

Sturgeon repeated that it is up to the Scottish people when and if a second referendum is held, noting that the SNP 2016 manifesto will set out the party’s position on another poll.

The First Minister said: “Scotland has a strong track record in welcoming those who have been forced to flee their homes due to war or persecution and we stand ready to help as many people as we can in the current crisis.

If such triggers are met, the London-based government could find it hard to refuse another vote to break up the United Kingdom, the world’s fifth-largest economy.

Sturgeon, who heads the pro-independent Scottish National Party (SNP), added that her party has not ruled-out calling for a second independence referendum, but will do so only if the people of Scottland demand it.

“There is no hyperbole in what I now say”. But it could equally apply to Scotland.

However, she warned that there would be “unstoppable” demand for another independence referendum if Scotland found itself facing a European Union (EU) exit that it did not vote for.

“We all agreed…the independence referendum should be “once in a generation”, Mr Cameron said in comments marking the first anniversary of the referendum.

“And that’s what I believe, that’s what he said, and that’s what we should stick to”.

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