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Brexit Q&A is starting in main hall, with @Feorlean, @joannaccherry and @AlynSmith #SNP19
@Feorlean @joannaccherry @AlynSmith Russell says best way to support European citizens who are applying for settled status in UK is "to have an independent Scotland of which they can be citizens", to round of applause from delegates #SNP19
@Feorlean @joannaccherry @AlynSmith Russell describes @joannaccherry as "an enormous asset to this party" #SNP19
@Feorlean @joannaccherry @AlynSmith "We are in this for the long haul and out of this for the long haul we have to achieve independence" Russell says
Standing ovation from some delegates as @joannaccherry takes the microphone #SNP19
@joannaccherry Cherry says "the Brexit Boris Johnson will deliver will be the hardest of Brexits imaginable and it will lead to no freedom of movement in Scotland" #SNP19
@joannaccherry "I'm afraid, because Boris Johnson has talked up a no deal so much that MPs for English and Welsh constituencies will consider any deal as good news," Cherry says #SNP19
@joannaccherry .@joannaccherry: "The Lib Dems were missing in action when it came to the court case and are now trying to ride on the back of our success"
@joannaccherry Cherry says the "constitutional mess" in the Supreme Court over something that Scotland didn't vote for, showed "it is possible sometimes for us to score a knock-out hit on the British government" #SNP19
Now @AlynSmith speaking, saying reasons we have the problems we have now is "because we did not vote for independence" #SNP19
@AlynSmith Smith says "the case for accession to the European Union will be complicated" but other EU nations are willing to help - "We are the good news story that the European Union needs right now" #SNP19
@AlynSmith Answering questions, Smith says everyone who engages in freedom of movement in Scotland will see that their rights have been traded for nothing, under current Brexit deal proposals #SNP19
@AlynSmith On the question of whether EU citizens will be deported, Russell says "not on our watch they won't" #SNP19
@AlynSmith "EU citizens have a right to stay and should stay, so apply for settled status," Russell says - adding: "Independence is the only way to guarantee EU citizens’ rights here" #SNP19 #snpconf19
@AlynSmith Joanna Cherry says if England is determined to leave the EU, Scotland must "look to our future trading relationships" - do we want to trade "with a narrow England, who has cut itself off from Europe, or to the rest of the countries in the EU?" #SNP19
@AlynSmith Cherry continues: Scotland is going to suffer very serious economic damage and job losses and that's not the way to go forward to an independence referendum #snpconf19 #SNP19
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