SNP’s drive to target soft ‘No’ voters

THE SNP’s bid to try and persuade ‘No’ voters to back independence will get underway this week.

Nicola Sturgeon said in March her party would have a summer drive in the form of a national listening exercise to try and win over so-called “soft No voters”.

But the move was delayed following the Brexit vote and it is still not clear what format it will take. A party spokesman confirmed the initiative would get under way before the end of Holyrood’s summer recess a week today.

Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives are calling on Nicola Sturgeon to ditch her focus on independence or risk becoming Scotland’s “wreckers”.

Party leader Ruth Davidson said: “Everything we have seen this summer demonstrates we have a Scottish Government which will put its independence obsession before the day job.

“In the aftermath of the EU referendum, we now need a Scottish Government which is prepared to put stability first.

“Instead we have a First Minister doubling down on division by threatening yet another referendum.

“The SNP has choice – to be Scotland’s builders or Scotland’s wreckers. To look to the future, or to take us back to the battles of the past.”

“It is high time we had a Scottish Government that acted for all of us, not just its own narrow interests.”