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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Scottish Tories accused of trying to revive anti-independence coalition

The SNP’s former Westminster leader Ian Blackford speaks at the party's spring conference in 2019
The SNP’s former Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on his party to ‘come together’ behind its new leader, Humza Yousaf. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ian Blackford, the Scottish National party’s former Westminster leader, has accused the Scottish Tories of trying to revive an anti-independence coalition that became notorious among yes voters during the 2014 referendum.

Blackford said calls from Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, for Tories to vote tactically against the SNP by backing Labour at the next election were proof that the unionist alliance that won the referendum was “still alive and well”.

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