Stephen Flynn: ‘self-inflicted wounds’ and fringe policies cost SNP election

Delegates during the SNP annual conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

The Scottish National party heavily lost the general election because of its “self-inflicted wounds” and fringe policies, according to the party’s Westminster leader.

Stephen Flynn, who was one of only nine SNP MPs to survive the election rout, said on Friday that the party had lost the trust of voters after repeated crises and a failure to focus on policies that the public supported.