Today marks the final day of the SNP's four-day virtual conference and Nicola Sturgeon is due to address her supporters and confront Boris Johnson with what is expected to be a major independence bombshell. The SNP intends to hold a second Scottish independence referendum despite only one major poll indicating the country would be in favour of the action since April. The First Minister is expected to use her final speech to pressure Westminster into cooperating with her party's demands, saying "democracy must - and will - prevail".

       The SNP has used the conference to outline plans for combatting climate change, rebuilding from coronavirus and next year’s local council elections but has mainly focused on its commitment to a second independence referendum.

       Members voted by a staggering 535 votes to 10 in favour of another vote "as soon as it is safe to hold a proper, detailed, serious national debate on independence", without specifying what constitutes such a time.

       Ms Sturgeon has defended her decision to pursue a second Scottish independence referendum despite the promise the 2014 vote would be a "once in a generation" event.

       In the days leading up to her bombshell speech at 11.50am today, she justified the second referendum by taking aim at Brexit and by pointing out that her party won the highest percentage of the vote ever seen in Scottish politics in the last election.

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