Stephen Flynn: “If I recall correctly, I reckon that’s about one-third of the fleet will have been renewed. That's a huge investment.”

He knows – he understands – that for as long as the binds of their Union continue to burst at the seams, there is no possible way that any UK Prime Minister can seriously survive.

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

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

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