Scottish National Party

/ næt /

noun

1. a political party advocating the independence of Scotland, founded in 1934 SNP

Derived Forms

• Scottish Nationalist, nounadjective

Example Sentences

The Scottish National Party MP Pete Wishart mocked the news, telling the Commons: "We got the crushing news today that our British envoy to Scotland will no longer be coming there to represent this Parliament."

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Soon, we squeezed into the drawing room of the first minister's official residence, Bute House, to watch Salmond announce his resignation as leader of the devolved government which he had run since 2007, and of the Scottish National Party, which he had dominated for far longer.

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In the last 15 years, Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party have hit historic highs or lows, and for some of them both.

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The Scottish National Party had 56 MPs in 2015, every seat bar three in Scotland.

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In a turbulent year for the Scottish National Party, which saw the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as leader and an ongoing police investigation into the party's finances, its membership fell by around 18,000 to 64,525.

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