Blackford

The SNP has an “open ear” to a potential second referendum on the UK’S membership of the European Union, the party’s Westminster leader has said.

Ian Blackford said the SNP’S priority was making sure Scotland could stay in the single market and customs union, but added the party was “watching developments” over the prospect of another EU vote.

A hard Brexit, he argued, would signal a “clear road map towards a second independence referendum that for me would be the priority”.