Nicola Sturgeon needs to 'move’ on referendum as veteran nationalists attack John Swinney’s SNP conference address

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will have to “start to move” on the issue of independence if she wants to hold a referendum by 2023, with “no way” she can face the electorate in 2026 without having first attempted to put the issue to the public, according to one of Scotland’s leading political experts.

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