Swinney is asked what he will do if the SNP does not get a majority of seats in Scotland on 4 July. Would he accept the will of the people and give up on pushing for a new independence referendum? Swinney doesn’t answer directly and says he won’t pre-judge the outcome of the election. Pressed on this issue, he points out the SNP won a majority in Holyrood in 2021 on a pro-independence platform. He says that mandate “has to be delivered” and it is “crystal clear that people in Scotland have expressed a preference to determine their own constitutional future.”