Pete Wishart said campaigning in the run-up to the vote in 2014 was the “most exciting time in my life”.
The SNP made a mistake by failing to properly examine the reasons for Scotland voting to stay in the UK in the aftermath of the independence referendum, the party’s longest-serving MP has said.
As membership of the SNP soared in the aftermath of the vote for Scotland to stay in the UK, he said the party got “caught up again in what was happening next” rather than properly examining the reasons for the result. Recalling that “everyone was joining” the SNP and the Greens, the other pro-independence party which had been involved in the campaign for a Yes vote in 2014, the MP said there was also a “movement towards the general election” in 2015.
Asked if the party had made a “mistake” in failing to properly examine the reasons for the loss of the referendum, Wishart said: “I think on reflection, yes.”
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