The Scottish National party has backed a change in its independence strategy, saying it would claim a “mandate” for a new vote on separation from Britain if it were to win a majority of Scottish seats at the next UK general election.
The SNP’s leader Humza Yousaf won strong backing from his party’s annual conference for an approach that requires the party to win a simple majority of Scotland’s 57 seats at Westminster.
The pro-independence party has been struggling to come up with a coherent plan to overcome the UK government’s refusal to grant it powers to hold a second independence referendum since it lost the first vote in 2014 by 55 to 45 per cent.
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