SNP LEADER SAYS I’LL HELP BREAK UP UK – SNP in Scotland will work with nationalist leaders of Wales and Northern Ireland
The SNP has pledged to work with nationalist leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland to break up the UK after next month’s elections.
Plaid Cymru is forecast to be the largest party in Wales after the Senedd elections on May 7, while Sinn Féin is already in power at Stormont. The SNP is on course for a majority at Holyrood.
John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, said he would “enjoy the co-operation” of working with his counterparts to push for independence for all three devolved nations.
Speaking to journalists on the campaign trail for the Holyrood elections, Mr Swinney said the United Kingdom would be “changed irreversibly” if separatist governments took control of all three nations for the first time since devolution.
He reportedly predicted that the three leaders would work together to change the UK’s “dynamics” and secure independence for Scotland. Mr Swinney has said an SNP majority would give him a mandate to force Sir Keir Starmer to drop his opposition to a second Scottish independence referendum.
