STEPHEN Flynn has backed the next Westminster General Election as a de facto referendum on independence – batting away the suggestion of dissolving Holyrood as unreasonable.
The new SNP Westminster leader has come out in favour of fighting the next UK-wide poll on the single issue of independence after the party’s ruling body put forward two options for members to debate at their upcoming special conference on the topic in March.
Flynn said the Westminster poll would allow the SNP to put forward a vision of “hope” for Scottish voters which he claimed gave his party an advantage over opponents.
