Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.Alex Salmond has suggested there are routes to independence other than the legally-backed second referendum favoured by Nicola Sturgeon.Salmond, who quit the SNP when he faced sexual assault charges of which he was later cleared, said the aim of his new party was to work towards a “successful, socially just, environmentally responsible, independent country”.The former First Minister said his new party would help create a ‘supermajority” for independence at Holyrood and stop SNP votes being wasted on the regional list.He said: "A parliament speaking for the people would give Scotland the upper hand in negotiations".He insisted that.
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