Stephen Flynn: “But with the weight of Scottish public opinion moving to our cause – we will see that final lap through.”

The SNP, as far as I'm concerned, is the pressure group for independence.

There is no shortcut. There is no political wheeze that can change the task ahead of us.

It can’t have been an easy summer for the Secretary of State for Scotland losing his title as the most unpopular politician in Scottish Labour.

It takes effort, it takes patient persuasion, it takes hard graft, but we can see that it is working