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SNP blessed with weak opposition as polls record drop in support for independence

SNP has no credible roadmap to independence and needs time in opposition to sort itself out says expert

Updated: 22 Feb 2021, 22:14 THE SNP has “no credible roadmap” to independence and needs a spell in opposition to “sort itself out”, a leading political academic has warned. Professor James Mitchell an authority on the Nats said the party’s civil war went “well beyond healthy debate”. 3 3 He says Nicola Sturgeon will struggle to control Indy campaign Credit: AFP or licensors And he claimed while Nicola Sturgeon will keep a firm grip on the SNP until May’s Holyrood poll “she will struggle to control the campaign for independence in any future referendum”. Prof Mitchell, of Edinburgh Uni,  said: “What we are witnessing is the kind of internal bloodletting normally associated with the aftermath of a major defeat. Much is a function of frustration and an inability to manage internal debate.

SNP expert: Divided party needs time in opposition to sort itself out

He said: “There has also been no credible strategy to deliver a referendum.   “The SNP ‘feeble fifty’ jibe when Labour’s 50 Scottish MPs (69%) failed to deliver devolution after the 1987 general election has come home to roost.   “With 48 (81%) of Scotland’s 59 MPs, the SNP is unable to deliver a referendum.”  He added: “Intoxicated spin of evidence from opinion polls has not helped.   “Support has grown but far from the consistent and convincing lead that would be necessary to risk another referendum.   “We hear less these days about the 60% that many members predicted lay just over the horizon.” He suggested it was ironic that SNP Constitution Secretary Mike Russell recently quoted Canon Kenyon Wright of the 1990s Scottish Constitutional Convention saying that if the UK Government said No to a referendum “We say Yes and we are the people”.

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