The SNP's plans for an unbiased Scotland are "lightweight", in accordance with one of many celebration's personal MPs. Edinburgh South West MP Joanna Cherry mentioned she is unaware of what the technique is for reaching independence as she ripped into the prospectus for Scotland after separation.

Under Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Government printed three in a sequence of coverage papers that laid out the plans for an unbiased Scotland.

The first - described as a scene setter - made comparisons between Scotland and different unbiased international locations in Europe.

The subsequent publications mentioned the economic system, forex and democracy.

Speaking to the Holyrood Sources podcast, Ms Cherry mentioned: "These policy papers that have been produced are absolutely lightweight stuff.

"I do know there are a number of profitable, small, unbiased international locations in Europe and I believe most of us know that, however what I believe voters, what folks in Scotland, need to know is how are we going to get from the place we at the moment are - enmeshed within the UK - to being a kind of profitable international locations?

"That's where the difficult questions lie in relation to questions to do with currency, to do with pension payments, to do with cross-border trade, to how long will it take us to get back into the EU? Do we sit in an association agreement while we do so?

"I believe there's solutions to all these questions - in politics there's by no means a proper reply, there must be a solution that may be justified and an argument that may be made, however the celebration's not put sufficient vitality into doing that."

Ms Cherry went on to say that she and her activists have not been given the required "ammunition" to persuade voters to come over to the independence side.

In the hour-long podcast, Ms Cherry hit out at former SNP leader Ms Sturgeon a number of times.

She suggested that her administration did not further the cause of independence.

Ms Cherry also claimed the "celebration is intellectually useless from the neck up" because it "has not been allowed to have an mental debate for years".

And she accused the former first minister of increasing the "toxicity" of the debate around controversial gender reforms.

Ms Cherry has been a vocal critic of allowing trans people to change their gender without a medical diagnosis - in a process known as self-ID - in recent years, which has caused run-ins with the party's hierarchy.

In January, Ms Sturgeon told the News Agents podcast that opponents of the legislation - which was blocked by the UK Government with the Scottish Government looking to overturn the move in court - are using women's rights as a "cloak".

Ms Sturgeon said: "There are individuals who have opposed this Bill that cloak themselves in girls's rights to make it acceptable, however simply as they're transphobic you may additionally discover that they are deeply misogynist, typically homophobic, probably a few of them racist as effectively."

Ms Cherry described the language from the former first minister as "intemperate" and "grossly irresponsible", claiming it "fed the toxicity of the talk".