Indyref2 court battle is doomed to fail and SNP know it, former Salmond adviser claims

Former Salmond adviser Alex Bell, right, has said the SNP have 'failed' independence supporters

CLAIMS from a former top advisor to Alex Salmond that taking Westminster to court over indyref2 are a “waste of time and money” have been dismissed as “speculation”.

Alex Bell, who helped negotiate the Edinburgh Agreement leading to the 2014 vote, has claimed the Supreme Court case “is a piece of theatre designed to disguise how the SNP has failed nationalists”.