The SNP have committed £600,000 to prepare for a second referendum within the next year. Instead of being focussed on Scotland’s vaccination programme and protecting people’s jobs, the SNP’s priority is holding another divisive referendum as early as this year.

Setting aside this vast sum of money to help preparations for a referendum shows the SNP’s commitment to return Scotland to the politics of division all over again.

The only way to stop an SNP majority again and get the Scottish Parliament 100 per cent focussed on rebuilding Scotland from this crisis is to vote for the Scottish Conservatives with your party vote in May’s election.

Cllr Alastair Redman - Kintyre and the Islands ward