Votingrecord

It will be interesting to see whether Nicola Sturgeon does fight the next General Election as a de facto referendum – based on votes, as she said in the summer, and not seats.

At the 2019 general election the SNP got 1.24 million votes from 4.3m Scottish registered voters – 29 per cent, and 45 per cent of the 2.75m votes cast. That equates to 2.7 per cent of 47.5m British registered voters being in favour of splitting up the UK – four per cent of the 31.8m votes cast in 2019.

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire