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Jackie Baillie has thanked Jim Sillars after the SNP icon donated to her succesful reelection campaign last year.

Veteran Scots trade union activist Bob Gillespie has died.

An SNP legend helped deprive the SNP of an overall majority at Holyrood by donating £2,000 to Scottish Labour.

The SNP should enter the next Westminster election with a clear pledge that a vote for the party is a vote for independence, a veteran Nationalist has said.

Jim Sillars, who won the 1988 Govan by-election in a breakthrough moment for the Nationalists, said the argument for backing the new independence movement on the list vote was "incontestable".The Scottish political veteran fell out with Salmond in the early 1990s over differences in party strategy and became one of his most persistent critics in later years.But Sillars - who served as a Labour MP in the 1970s before later joining the Nationalists - has now pledged to back his former political

Nicola Sturgeon ’s husband as party chief executive is becoming “more untenable” every day. Jim Sillars said Peter Murrell is in “dangerous territory” over WhatsApp messages which appear to show him calling for pressure to be put on the police in the Alex Salmond case.

Jim Sillars, a former SNP depute leader, claimed it would be a "tragedy" if Yes voters split just as support for independence began to rise in the polls. Sillars spoke out after the Record revealed a former SNP MSP has opened up a major rift in the nationalist movement by saying he will help launch a new independence party.

A new pro-independence party may have to set up because the SNP is so rotten, according to a veteran Nationalist.