Scottish National Party (SNP)

Website: http://www.snp.org

The SNP are by far the largest pro-independence grouping within the Scottish Parliament. They have an attractive, highly informative website and are actively involved in the Independence Convention.

The SNP was founded in 1934 as the result of a merger between the National Party of Scotland (NPS) (which was founded by Hugh MacDiarmid) and the Scottish Party. The merger was the brainchild of leading NPS figure John MacCormick who desired unity for the nationalist movement in Scotland, and upon learning of the Scottish Party's emergence moved to secure it.

The SNP's current leader is Alex Salmond. The SNP have recently won an impressive by-election result in Moray (see news page).

Since the Scottish elections  the SNP have been positively involved in cross-party co-operation within the Independence Convention (which officially launched on St Andrews Day this year) and a number of their activists and MSP's have backed the referendum campaign Independence First.

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