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FOLLOWING the success of a trial project, the Scottish Independence Foundation (SIF) is writing to every pro-independence group that it has…

Winner in 2016: Angela Constance (SNP) ALMOND Valley is essentially a rebranded version of the old Livingston constituency, which for many years was synonymous at Westminster level with Robin Cook. Labour’s fondly remembered former foreign secretary won the seat on six consecutive occasions with large majorities that peaked at more than 13,000 votes just before his untimely death in 2005. However, at local government level in West Lothian, the SNP were sometimes much more competitive – for example in 1992 they narrowly emerged as the largest single party on the district council. That ...

Exclusive Former Cabinet minister Marco Biagi is part of a ‘dedicated team to focus on delivering a Yes vote’ VIRAL videos or strategist salaries? A political scientist and the head of a Yes funding body set out their views on the SNP’s £600,000 indyref campaign commitment today. The six-figure spending pledge was set out at a meeting of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC). The ring-fenced funds will be spent this financial year on “referendum preparations”. Dr Samuel Power, of the University of Sussex, told the Sunday National that this kind of public dec...

NationBuilder is set to be used by the Yes movement’s new national membership organisation IT helped Barack Obama win the 2008 US presidential election and the SNP has used it to great effect, while it was deployed by both sides in the Brexit referendum. Now, the latest version of a software package called NationBuilder is set to be used by the Yes movement’s new national membership organisation – which The National can reveal will be launched in early February The National can also reveal that, following a clash with a group over the use of the name Yes Alba, the organisation is ...

Elaine C Smith will host the event live on The National’s Facebook page TONIGHT, The National and the Scottish Independence Foundation come together to present the first-ever Independence Awards, recognising the achievements of individuals and groups who have been working for the cause of Scottish independence. Earlier this month, we invited people from across the Yes movement to place nominations for those who they felt deserve some recognition for their campaigning activities. There are two categories: the Indy Campaigner of the Year and the Indy Group of the Year. Following the ...