Scottish National party is signing up more supporters south of the border,among them ex-Labour and Green activists seeking a bolder alternativeA London resident since he was a year old-fashioned, Andrew Chevis might seem an unlikely recruit to the Scottish National party. Yet at a time when the SNP is planning to spread its message beyond Scotland, or the former Labour party activist is one of an increasing trickle of English people who have gone a step further and signed up as members.“There are thousands of us in England for whom the SNP’s core message on the economy is a very attractive one,” says Chevis, a one-time department secretary for Labour in Battersea who joined the SNP after the independence referendum.
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Source: theguardian.com