Veteran nationalist Jim Sillars says the SNP are lucky not to have been granted a second independence referendum – because they would lose it.
The party’s former deputy leader, who won the 1988 Govan by-election, said the SNP can no longer be trusted to make an economic case that will increase support for breaking away from the UK.
He said: “For seven wasted years the SNP elevated a referendum as the be-all and end-all of Scottish politics. They have done so while support for independence has been a consistent minority.
