Nicola Sturgeon 'to make major change to de facto referendum plan'

THE SNP may be set to roll back plans for a de facto independence referendum at the next General Election with major changes to the proposals at a key meeting today.

Last year First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that if the Supreme Court determined Holyrood could not legally hold a vote, the next Westminster election would be treated as indyref2 – and if the SNP won a majority of overall votes, negotiations to remove Scotland from the Union could begin with the UK Government.

However according to The Times, an option is set to be presented to the party’s National Executive Committee on Saturday changing the terms of such a vote.