SNP members are gathering for the first day of their party’s autumn conference in Aberdeen. The party is keen to trumpet quite how much has changed in a year, and it’s not just proud of its 56 MPs. Last night it released ‘figures showing the scale of its growth since the referendum’. These include the conference hall having four times as many seats as it did last year (from 1,200 to 4,765), the exhibition space is three times the size, there are three times as many fringe meetings and a media centre six times the size ‘to accommodate over 500 members of the media’.
(The press room is a rather outdoorsy tent, incidentally).
But the party has changed so much since its last conference. Many of its delegates see its general election victory and the increased number of seats in the hall as a sign that the SNP must talk up plans for a second referendum.
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