{"id":197473,"date":"2025-10-13T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197473\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:45:07","slug":"snp-will-introduce-network-of-walk-in-gp-services-john-swinney-tells-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197473\/","title":{"rendered":"SNP will introduce network of walk-in GP services, John Swinney tells conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, can the SNP win a majority next year?published at 16:19 BST<\/p>\n

16:19 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Glenn Campbell
BBC Scotland Political Editor<\/p>\n

Independence is back – not that it is ever far from mind
\nfor the party that exists to bring it about.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, SNP members backed John Swinney’s plan<\/a> to declare a mandate for a second independence referendum if the party wins a majority of seats in next year’s Holyrood election.<\/p>\n

But can this be achieved by an SNP that opinion polls
\nsuggest is far less popular than it was in 2021, never mind at the heights of
\nits Holyrood majority in 2011?<\/p>\n

A potential pathway is opened up by a more fragmented
\nunionist opposition, with the emergent Reform UK drawing support away from
\nother parties, not least the Conservatives and Labour.<\/p>\n

Even if the SNP only has a 35% vote share in any given
\nconstituency, that could well be enough to win if the other 65% is split
\nmultiple ways.<\/p>\n

However, to increase the chances of SNP success, the party
\nis seeking to rebuild the broader coalition of independence-supporting voters
\nit has attracted in the past.<\/p>\n

That is why you will hear the independence argument
\nthreaded through the SNP\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n

The SNP\u2019s political opponents – including the
\nConservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats – see talk of independence as a
\ndistraction from the day-to-day business of delivery on health, education and
\nlaw and order.<\/p>\n

But the SNP hopes the goal of independence can unite and
\nmotivate its activists to campaign, can motivate its membership to turnout to
\nvote and can motivate lapsed supporters to return to the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, can the SNP win a majority next year?published at 16:19 BST 16:19 BST Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland Political…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-197473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}