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Alex Salmond: Scotland will become an independent nation

Alex Salmond addressing the SNP conference for the last time as leader.

Alex Salmond has used his final speech as SNP leader to proclaim that "Scotland will become an independent nation".

The referendum vote was 45%, not 55%, but let us proclaim what each of us knows now iwth a greater certainty than ever before. Scotland will become an independent nation.

– Alex Salmond.

He also hailed a recent surge in the party's membership, telling delegates that the SNP now had 85,000 members.

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