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SNP must 'wake up' and plan for Scottish independence, says Alex Salmond ally
rising support for a Yes vote.Kenny MacAskill, a former Holyrood finance secretary, said questions could be asked of party bosses on their current plans for delivering IndyRef2.Recent polling put support for independence as high as 54% despite the Scottish Government focusing its energies in recent months on the response to the global coronavirus pandemic.But MacAskill, the SNP MP for East Lothian, told the Record that while traditional political campaigning was halted there was nothing stopping nationalists from putting in place a concrete plan for how an independent Scotland could work.He said: "I can understand why the First Minister and the health minister have been otherwise engaged."But this isn't about the government - the government