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Alex Salmond calls on SNP and Scottish Greens to create ‘independence convention’

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Former First Minister Alex Salmond is calling on the SNP and Scottish Greens to help create a independence convention where each constituency would field just one pro-independence candidate at the next UK general election.

In a letter to First Minister Humza Yousaf, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, the Alba party leader said he has been “publicly extolling the virtues of the pro-independence parties fielding one agreed independence candidate” for each Scottish seat at the next UK-wide poll, currently scheduled for January, 2025.

Mr Salmond wrote: “As you will know, I have been publicly extolling the virtues of the pro-independence parties fielding one agreed independence candidate in each Scottish seat at the next UK general election, on a manifesto commitment seeking a mandate to negotiate independence.“I have no doubt that such a move would result in the election of a significantly larger contingent of nationalist MPs to deliver on that mandate, than would be the case if the election is conducted in the usual fashion.“I would be happy to meet privately on a one-to-one basis to discuss the issue further.

Please let me know if you would be willing to do so.”Mr Salmond addressed his party’s spring conference in Inverness on Saturday.

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