SNP MP claims forcing early Holyrood election would lead to Douglas Ross as First Minister
The SNP’s longest-serving MP has said plans to turn the general election into a de facto referendum on independence are a “massive gamble”.
Nicola Sturgeon has said the SNP will use the Westminster election as an independence vote after the Supreme Court closed the door on Holyrood staging a referendum. The Perth and North Perthshire MP wrote that “potential difficulties” include Westminster ignoring a positive result for the SNP as well as the “sheer challenge” of securing 50%-plus of the vote:
He continued: “This then is the only way forward and for all its difficulties, challenges and drawbacks it is our only, and possibly best last chance.”
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