SNP backs Swinney’s ‘clear’ strategy for new independence referendum

<p>Members overwhelmingly endorse leadership motion that majority at next Holyrood election is only route to second vote</p><p>SNP members have overwhelmingly backed leader John Swinney’s “clear and unambiguous” independence strategy that a majority election win is the only route to another referendum.</p><p>On the first day of the party’s annual conference in Aberdeen, the vast majority of members backed the leadership’s motion that next May’s Holyrood elections should be fought on a “clear platform of national independence” and that winning a majority in the Scottish parliament – by securing 65 seats or more – would be “the only uncontested way to deliver a new vote on Scotland’s future”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/11/snp-backs-swinneys-clear-strategy-for-new-independence-referendum">Continue reading...</a>