May 2026 will see elections happen in Holyrood, with the SNP hoping to maintain maintain of energy.
First Minister John Swinney is internet hosting a marketing campaign occasion this morning as he prepares to guide the occasion into the election.
He is anticipated to say: "Westminster management of Scotland’s assets doesn’t work for us. We see that of their full failure to assist key industries in Scotland.
"That is why, after I met the prime minister on Friday, I made clear the existential nature of the present menace.
"I left him in little doubt that, except he modifies course, what we face is a second wave of Eighties-style deindustrialisation, Eighties-style financial devastation.
"If Keir Starmer doesn’t change course, he’ll enter our nationwide story as a second Thatcher, a second destroyer of business, a second destroyer of communities, and Scotland is not going to overlook.
"That is why we speak of independence as the fresh start Scotland needs."
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