JOHN Swinney has rejected Humza Yousaf’s claim that Scottish independence feels “frustratingly close”.
Newsnight on Thursday, the former deputy first minister said support for independence was now “consistently stronger” than in 2014, when Yes won 45% of the vote.
Yousaf said he believed that if “every person in Scotland could be afforded the opportunity of being first minister for just one day” they would “vote for independence with both their head and their heart”.In a list of demands he urged the expected next first minister to axe the office of Independence Minister, currently held by Jamie Hepburn, and to ditch “taxpayer-funded SNP propaganda papers”.
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