AS we get down to marking the anniversary of the independence referendum, one thing we won’t be reporting on is any great celebration from the victorious No side ...
In this extract from his new book, Inside The Indyref, Pete Wishart MP recounts the shock when, a little more than a week from polling day, an opinion poll was published showing Yes in the lead.
There are some people you meet in your life who are just impossible to dislike, who just ooze natural charm and who can keep you entertained for hours with a variety of amusing anecdotes.
THERE are some days when you almost feel sorry for Anas Sarwar. There he is, only trying to make Scottish Labour electable again, trying to reverse the wipeout his party suffered in 2015. Perhaps he thinks he might even be making some progress when looking at the polls.
THERE were always going to be a few twists and turns in our journey to independence and, as conditions change, so by necessity should our approach to securing our goal. As part of that journey we are now in what can only be described as the new “post-referendum” phase of the campaign for Scottish independence and our job is to determine the best strategy to meet these new conditions.
In anything between one year and eighteen months we will be going to the polls to decide the next UK Government.
SNP MP Pete Wishart writes that a Convention should be convened to organise campaigning and bring the movement back together
I DON'T think that it would be an understatement to concede that these are uncertain times for the SNP.
LET me put this out there straight away. A de facto referendum is just about the worst possible way to settle the constitutional future of Scotland. Let me also put it another way. A de facto referendum is now the only way we’re going to be able to settle the constitutional future of Scotland.
TODAY was quite an extraordinary day in Westminster, and believe me, I have seen a number of extraordinary days in my 21 years in the place.
