The hard Left icon told the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that he would have allowed a vote to take place as early as 2021 if he had become prime minister in 2019.
has backed a new independence vote for Scotland 'soon' and urged his former party to help make it happen.Fringe that he would have allowed a vote to take place as early as 2021 if he had become prime minister in 2019.'s Conservatives, leading Labour to its worst defeat in more than 80 years., the now independent MP said he hoped Labour MPs would help pave the way for a new vote.
The hard Left icon told the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that he would have allowed a vote to take place if he had become prime minister in 2019 instead of being embarrassingly thrashed by Boris Johnson's Conservatives.
'I don't think there should be a power of veto by the UK Government or the UK prime minister on this. SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black said: 'The former Labour leader recognises it is wrong to deny Scotland its democratic right to choose its own future - it's time Sir Keir Starmer woke up to that reality.
The financial crisis engulfing the party was laid bare yesterday after it emerged it plunged more than £800,000 into the red last year. The latest loss for 2022 follows a £729,845 deficit in the previous year – meaning it has spent all of the £1.3million reserves it had at the start of 2021. It has instead fallen into the red, with the SNP’s liabilities now outweighing its assets by £219,629.
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