Stephen Flynn has claimed that the SNP will win seats at the General Election, despite devastating polling suggesting that the party will suffer huge losses.

The SNP Westminster Leader said the party is looking to "retain every single seat" and "win other seats" from rival parties.

He said he is "very confident", despite polling showing that he could lose his own seat at the election.

Recent surveys have suggested the SNP could lose many of the 48 seats won in 2019, falling to just seven.

First Minister John Swinney has admitted that that his party could face a "difficult" time at the July 4 election.

But Flynn was much more optimistic, claiming the SNP's "positive message of putting Scotland first" will help it "get over the line and deliver for the people of Scotland again".

He told Sky: "I’m looking to retain every single seat that we have, and also looking to win other seats from other parties, because that is what you do in an election.

"I’m very confident with the policy platform we’re going to put forward, with the clear fact that we are the ones who always put Scotland first at Westminster, unlike all the other political parties."

He also said the SNP would seek further negotations on a second independence referendum if they win a "majority of seats" in Scotland.

He said: "The winner in an election gets to take forward their manifesto and ultimately it will be for us to seek to do that.

"The big question here, and it is a question Keir Starmer is going to have to face up, is at what point does he recognise the democratic views of the Scottish people?

"We know the Conservative Party don’t, whether that is Theresa May, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak.

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"Is Keir Starmer seriously going to go into the election and say he is going to stick to the same policy platform as the Conservative Party when it comes to the people of Scotland, 50 per cent of whom back Scottish independence?"

He added that he is "very confident that right across Scotland we'll be in a position to fund our campaign and to take forward our positive message of putting Scotland first".