THE government was accused yesterday of attempting to undermine the Scottish National Party’s efforts to win independence for Scotland.

The SNP’s leader in Westminster Stephen Flynn MP questioned the role of civil servants in investigating SNP spending on its independence campaign and has written to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case.

Mr Flynn said in his letter to the head of the Civil Service that Westminster was “exerting ever tighter control on Scotland’s national democratic institutions” and is seeking to “stop the Scottish government from carrying out the work it was elected to do” to win a second independence referendum.