Stewart McDonald

Stewart McDonald is the former SNP MP for Glasgow South and the party's defence spokesman for six years.

Can the SNP bounce back before 2026?

SNP conferences of late haven’t been what they were in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum. Gone are the days when a carnival atmosphere ensued. That’s for the best. Those times felt like our conference was on loan to an impatient ‘Yes’ movement rather than a conference of the party of government, focused on ensuring good public policy choices and Scottish self-determination.   But absent too from the weekend’s 90th annual conference was the