Rolling coverage of the SNP conference in Glasgow, including Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote speech
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Nicola Sturgeon has already delivered her first speech to the Scottish National party’s conference in Glasgow – the one announcing the publication of draft legislation for a second independence referendum – but her main address coming this afternoon. According to the SNP’s overnight briefing, it will contain a “heavy focus on domestic policy initiatives”.
But Brexit is going to feature too. As Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks report in their preview story, Sturgeon is going to announce plans to beef up Scotland’s trade links with the EU – on the grounds that Scotland cannot trust Conservative ministers like Boris Johnson and Liam Fox to represent it. Here is the story.
Related: Nicola Sturgeon plans to strengthen Scotland’s trade links with EU
Make no mistake, the growth of our economy right now is threatened not just by the prospect of losing our place in the single market – disastrous though that would be.
It is also the deeply damaging – and utterly shameful – message that the Tories’ rhetoric about foreign workers is sending.
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