{"id":604967,"date":"2026-05-26T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:26:10","slug":"swinney-asks-parliament-to-put-scotlands-future-in-scotlands-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604967\/","title":{"rendered":"Swinney asks parliament to &#8216;put Scotland&#8217;s future in Scotland&#8217;s hands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" height=\"2.5rem\" width=\"9.8125rem\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-h608ny-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Swinney insists Holyrood&#8217;s largest ever pro-indy majority cannot be ignored&#8230; but can it?published at 13:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:54 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/153a49fb-a770-48c6-aa1d-88945f044193.png.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Lynsey Bews<br \/>BBC Scotland political correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the election campaign, John Swinney talked about a majority victory for his party being the catalyst for a second independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it became clear at an event less than two weeks before polling day, that the First Minister would be pursuing his case &#8211; SNP majority or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Setting out his plans for the first 100 days of his party returning to government, he promised to bring forward a vote to approve demands for the powers to hold a fresh ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the aftermath of the result, he&#8217;s reframed his argument &#8211; stating that Holyrood&#8217;s largest ever pro-indy majority cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it looks unlikely this will make a difference to the UK government &#8211; whose ministers have already signalled they&#8217;ve no intention of agreeing to another referendum, and who are pre-occupied by the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the prime minister&#8217;s own future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swinney insists Holyrood&#8217;s largest ever pro-indy majority cannot be ignored&#8230; but can it?published at 13:54 BST 13:54 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604967","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=604967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}