The Scottish First Minister will also use his speech to the SNP conference to insist support for independence can increase to a ‘sustained…
Humza Yousaf will pledge an extra £300 million over the next three years to cut NHS waiting lists in Scotland
It is his first conference since taking over from Nicola Sturgeon as party leader and first minister in March this year – but it comes at a time when his party is seeing support slip in the polls, while a police investigation into internal SNP finances is still ongoing. SNP leader Humza Yousaf will insist support for independence can be increased to a ‘sustained majority’
He will insist that post-Covid ministers are “working hard to reduce NHS waiting times” with a “significant reduction in the longest waits” having been seen since targets for this were announced last July. On the issue of independence, he will say that already “around half” of Scots support the country leaving the UK.But he will tell supporters that will be achieved when the party focuses “not on the how – but on the why” of independence.
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