Nats to unveil THIRD ‘masterplan’ to break up UK

THE SNP will this summer publish its third economic blueprint to break up Britain in just five years, The Mail on Sunday can disclose.

The roadmap – which is being compiled by SNP grandee Ian Blackford – promises to deliver a ‘green revolution’ powered by wind and hydrogen energy.

Party chiefs hope to establish a university network which will boost Scotland’s green energy research and development capabilities and catapult the nation to independence. The latest iteration of policy pledges to justify separation will fly in the face of previous SNP claims that Scotland could live off its fossil fuel reserves.

Last night critics said the plan for another independence blueprint ‘sums up the warped priorities of the SNP’.

Conservative constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said: ‘The real priorities of Scotland – like the cost of living crisis and the pressures facing our NHS – continue to be ignored by this out-of-touch SNP Government, who should drop these plans for a new blueprint.’

Pamela Nash, chief executive of Scotland in Union, said: ‘SNP politicians have utterly failed to capitalise on Scotland’s renewables potential, breaking promises on green jobs and a pledge to create a national energy company, so they simply can’t be taken seriously on this.’

Mr Blackford insisted: ‘I am convinced we can make a difference to show independence can make the economy work better for the people of Scotland.

‘We want to create a green energy revolution north of the Border and a linked network of world class university research.’

The roadmap, titled Mapping Scotland’s Industrial Future, is being devised with Sir Martin Donnelly, a former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Professor Dominic Houlder of London Business School. Sir Martin said: ‘Under any political scenario, unlocking Scotland’s potential as a high value added, high productivity economy is critical.’

It will be the third set of justifications for independence shared by the SNP since the Scottish Growth Commission report was published in 2018.

That document was slammed by former Nationalist supporters as a ‘political suicide note’ amid fears that it would drive voters to support the Conservative and Labour parties.