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📺 Watch @Ianblackford_MP live on the Sunday Show, on Day Three of the #SNP21 Conference.

⏰ Tune in from 10:15am on BBC One Scotland.

@Ianblackford_MP 📣 @Ianblackford_MP: "We have a mandate for an independence referendum, we won an election, there's a clear majority in the Scottish Parliament and there will be a Bill published to enact the will of the people in Scotland."

@Ianblackford_MP 📣 IB: "The First Minister has said that once we've dealt with the pandemic, let's get this out of the way, and in ideal circumstances we will be having that referendum in 2023."

@Ianblackford_MP 📣 IB: "My message to Boris Johnson, though, is that he's got to respect democracy.

He's got to respect the fact that people in Scotland elected a government that has a clear mandate for an independence referendum."

@Ianblackford_MP 📣 IB: "When you look at the polling, what people say is that they expect a referendum to take place in the lifetime of this parliament.

What we're doing is, we're taking our responsibility seriously and we're dealing with the pandemic first."

@Ianblackford_MP 📣 IB: "We've just won an election a few months ago, we've increased our vote share, we got the highest vote share of any party, in any election in the UK, in the last 50 years.

It was absolutely unequivocal that the SNP were seeking a mandate for #indyref2."