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Unionist parties fume over SNP's 'needless' 2023 independence conference

THE SNP have announced plans to hold an emergency conference in early 2023 to discuss the route to independence after the Supreme Court ruled Holyrood could not hold indyref2 without Westminster ’s permission.

Nicola Sturgeon announced that the event would be held in Edinburgh on Sunday, March 19 – and the Unionists are fuming.

The Scottish Conservatives’ constitution spokesperson, Donald Cameron, claimed the conference was a “needless diversion” which showed the SNP “aren’t a party of government”. Every Holyrood election since 2007 might beg to differ with that assessment.

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