JOHN Swinney has confirmed the SNP remain wedded to Humza Yousaf’s independence strategy for the next election.
The SNP leader told The National after his acceptance speech in Glasgow that he backed the “mechanism” agreed at last year’s special conference.and taking that as a basis for independence support, which they said they would take to the UK Government to begin negotiations on how to give that “democratic effect”.The latter half of the strategy includes a number of options, including beginning negotiations for independence or making arrangements for indyref2.
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