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Scottish Family Party: 2017 Christian right, Social conservatism, Anti-abortion, Anti-LGBT: Richard Lucas Scottish Libertarian Party: 2012 Libertarianism, Classical liberalism, Minarchism, Euroscepticism, Cultural liberalism, Scottish independence: Tam Laird Scottish Socialist Party: 1998 Democratic socialism, Scottish independence, Scottish ...
The Alba Party (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Alba; Alba being the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland) is a Scottish nationalist and pro-independence political party in Scotland. Founded in February 2021, it was led by former first minister of Scotland and SNP leader Alex Salmond until his death in 2024.
Scottish independence is supported most prominently by the Scottish National Party, but other parties also support independence. Other pro-independence parties which have held representation in the Scottish Parliament or the UK Parliament include the Scottish Greens, [197] the Alba Party and the Scottish Socialist Party.
Joan McAlpine MSP (Scottish National Party) [244] Aileen McLeod MSP (Scottish National Party) [10] [72] John Mulvey, former leader of Lothian Regional Council (Labour). [245] Alex Neil MSP (Scottish National Party) [246] Shona Robison MSP (Scottish National Party) [240] Alex Salmond, Former Scottish National Party leader and former First ...
The Alba Party is a pro independence party which broke away from the Scottish National Party. [2] [3] The party gained prominence when the SNP-Green coalition broke down in early 2024. [4] The party defined itself as advocating a more radical strategy for independence. [5]
The position of the SNP – the largest independence supporting party – is that the Queen should remain head of state and the pound should remain the official currency, at least until a separate ...
Better Together was the successful campaign for a No vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, advocating Scotland to remain a country of the United Kingdom.The organisation was formed in June 2012, operating until winning the vote on the referendum's polling day on 18 September 2014 with 2,001,926 (55.3%) voting against independence and 1,617,989 (44.7%) voting in favour.
The campaign was supported by the SNP, [52] the Scottish Green Party (which also created "its own pro-independence campaign to run alongside Yes Scotland") [53] and the Scottish Socialist Party. At its launch, Salmond stated that he hoped one million people in Scotland would sign a declaration of support for independence. [54]