John Swinney is playing an “old tune” on independence, Scottish Green leadership candidate Lorna Slater has said.

First Minister John Swinney said on Monday that an SNP majority at next year’s Scottish Parliament election should be enough to secure a second vote on independence, as it was for the first IndyRef in 2014.

Slater, who launched her campaign for re-election as party co-leader in Edinburgh on Wednesday, said she does not expect an SNP majority next May.

The former Scottish Government minister accused Swinney of being “a little disingenuous”.

“This is an old tune that the SNP have been playing,” she said.

“There are several pro-independence parties in the Scottish Parliament – the Greens have been there all along, from the beginning.

“We had a successful pro-independence maj

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