Signs of burnout at SNP conference: 'I’m not quite sure what we’re for now'

There is less of the giddy triumphalism of previous gatherings, and it is notable how minimal is Nicola Sturgeon’s presence

As party conference debates go, it was a gentle rebuke to the leadership rather than an activist uprising. But resolution 13, overwhelmingly passed by SNP members at conference on Monday afternoon, may denote a subtle shift in the party’s centre of gravity.

The resolution called for the appointment of paid regional organisers to harness the energy of the SNP’s vastly expanded activist base – hardly controversial stuff for a party that enjoyed a spectacular surge in membership after the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, rising to a current tally of 120,000.

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