Nicola Sturgeon has said that recovery from the covid pandemic trumps independence as her political priority. Against a background of rumbling discontent in the SNP over the party’s momentum towards a new referendum, the First Minister made it clear that tackling the pandemic remained her number one focus.
On the eve of a her speech to the online SNP conference Sturgeon dialled down the prospect of an early referendum in the face of a new variant of the covid virus.Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show she said she did not know how the new covid surge could affect her plan to attempt to stage a referendum in the second half the Holyrood term.She said: ”I’ve said this all along, since I was elected several months ago when I made this very
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