The intervention comes ahead of a special SNP conference next month which will debate how to respond to last year's Supreme Court defeat.
Nicola Sturgeon’s strategy of making the next Westminster general election a de facto referendum will not secure Scotland’s independence, a senior SNP MP has warned.
Their intervention comes ahead of a special SNP conference next month which the party will use to set out its pathway to securing independence. McDonald said in his paper: “A de facto referendum, regardless of whether it takes place in a Westminster or Holyrood election, will not secure Scotland’s independence.”
McDonald told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme that the move for a de facto referendum within the SNP is a “a symbol of our own impatience”. He claimed that the SNP should "relish" this. He said: “If there’s one thing this party knows how to do it is how to campaign, and I think that is how we can change the mood across the country in favour of independence.”
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