Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP conference: ‘We are the independence generation’

First minister promises steady hand on tiller' while offering reassurance to those opposed to UK exit

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Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish National party's annual conference that we are the independence generation", while reassuring those who will never be persuaded of the merits of leaving the UK that whatever happens in future, Scotland belongs to you as much as it does to us".

Addressing delegates in Aberdeen at the party's first in-person conference since the pandemic, she promised Scotland a steady and compassionate hand on the tiller" through the cost of living crisis.