Let’s make indyref2 case with conviction SNP faithful are told

Nicola Sturgeon told Scots the prospect of independence offers a “better future” as she pledged to press ahead with another vote.

The First Minister said only the timing remained to be clarified.

And deputy leader Angus Robertson won applause from delegates when he told branch offices to prepare for another referendum

“Scotland should have the right to choose our future when the terms of Brexit are clear,” Ms Sturgeon said.

But to all of you here in this hall and across our country who are impatient for change, let me say this.

“We may not yet know exactly when the choice will be made. But we can, we must, and we will always make the case for independence.”

The First Minister said the UK government is “engulfed in chaos” over over Brexit and the UK is now in terminal decline meaning the case for independence has “never been greater.”

“So let us make our case 0 Angus Robertson issued a rallying call to activists with conviction,” Ms Sturgeon said. “There is a better future to be had for all of us, if we chose to build it, together.”

Earlier Mr Robertson, who lost his Moray seat in the June election, set delegates on a referendum footing. “It’s 1,300 days until the next Scottish Parliament election – and there will be a referendum on Scottish independence.”

Delegates had earler given a rousing reception to Paisley and Renfrewshire MP Mhairi Black as she hit out at hit out at those who want Nationalists to put independence “on the back burner” in the wake of June’s general election.