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Labour’s next UK manifesto will include a commitment to oppose a second independence referendum for Scotland, finally clarifying the party’s stance on the issue.

After Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC on Thursday that he would “decide at the time” whether to allow a second vote, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard will tell delegates:

And let me say at the very outset: we don’t need another independence referendum to change Scotland, as far as I am concerned– we’ve just had one. The majority of people do not want one, and as we meet here this week with the prospect of a general election, I can make clear today that the next Labour manifesto will oppose another independence referendum.

The announcement was inevitably immediately met with derision by SNP supporters online, while SNP leader and first minister Nicola Sturgeon described the announcement as “good news for the SNP”.