The SNP has announced that if the next general election results in a hung parliament it will, as power brokers, ‘undo Brexit as far as possible’. Alyn Smyth, the SNP’s EU accession spokesperson, said his party would demand the UK has a close relationship with Brussels in any negotiations with a minority Labour government.
There might be a few titters at this and jokes about signing cheques that can’t be cashed from a scandal-beset party whose relevance and even long-term viability is in serious doubt. But the SNP clearly think this is a winning strategy that can arrest their decline and boost their chances. Whether it truly is, and whether their avowed antipathy to Brexit is all that it is purported to be, is questionable.
Although the SNP hate to be reminded of this, there is evidence that a significant chunk of SNP supporters actually voted for Brexit. A National Centre for Social research poll found that 36
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