SNP candidate Alyn Smith (c) during the European elections count in Edinburgh. The SNP is on track to win three of its six seats Andrew Milligan/PAA record-breaking result for the SNP in the European elections has reinforced the mandate for a second independence referendum, according to senior nationalists. With almost all the results in from Scotland, the SNP seems likely to win three of the six Scottish MEP seats, with Scottish Labour suffering a catastrophic collapse by losing its two MEPs. The Brexit Party, which came second across Scotland, are on course to secure one MEP, as are the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Labour’s David Martin, who had been the UK’s longest serving MEP after first being elected in 1984, conceded he…

Source: The Times May 27, 2019 11:15 UTC