Stephen Flynn: “With the weight of Scottish public opinion moving to our cause, we will see that final lap through together – for…”

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

But let’s make sure that power and that decision making is taken by the Scottish people and they have the opportunity to do so in an independence referendum.

It’s almost like he has been taking advice from Anas Sarwar, the man who told us that he was a lifelong campaigner against the House of Lords, just as he was taking up a seat in the House of Lords.

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