INVERCLYDE Council’s SNP group leader is celebrating the 10th anniversary of joining her party this week...having joined up the day after the 2014 independence referendum 

Councillor Elizabeth Robertson joined the party in the wake of Scotland's decision to remain in the UK. 

She told the Telegraph that while she had always been political, the campaign had sparked her interest in party politics and set her on the path to becoming an elected member.

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She said: “Throughout the campaign, the clearest thing I would say that made the difference for me was my Sunday dinner table.

“At beginning of the campaign there were people who were ambivalent, who were probably going to vote No, and by conversation and discourse, not all at once, everybody got to the point where they were going to vote Yes.

“That was the main thing about and how powerful that experience was.

“I’ve always been very political, but I hadn’t been party political. I had never wanted to be part of a party before.

“I think a lot of people were doing what I was doing, having day to day chats with their family, their friends and their colleagues.

“When I look forward that’s the kind of thing that fills me with hope. Those opportunities to talk about the kind of Scotland we want to have are very powerful.

“I think in so many ways we’re closer to independence because more and more people, through that sort of Sunday dinner table conversations are thinking ‘you know what? We can do this.’

“The reasons not to do it are evaporating.”