Giving Scots a fresh vote on the country’s place in the UK in a second independence referendum “has never been more important, more urgent or more necessary”, John Swinney has said. The Scottish First Minister said to achieve another vote he is “determined” to see the SNP win a majority of seats at next May’s Holyrood election. That would repeat the party’s success in 2011, which led to the 2014 independence referendum. That ballot, in which a majority of Scots voted to remain part of the UK, wa