![]() ![]() ![]() Until the 1960s, the SNP had no sound, nationwide structure. A peripheral movement had turned into one of the key players in the UK political landscape.ĢSuch a remarkable advance may be put down to its organization, its policies and its leaders. Three-quarters of a century later, not only was it governing Scotland, it was also planning its full independence. Its founders aimed at gaining self-government for Scotland through elections as the pressure they had exerted on other parties – especially the Liberals and Labour – had failed. 1The SNP appeared in 1934 out of a merger between the Scottish Party, created in 1932, and the National Party of Scotland (NPS) set up in 1928 by the Scottish National Movement (SNM), the Scots National League (SNL), the Scottish Home Rule Association (SHRA) and the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA). ![]()
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