The Scottish National Party (SNP) has a clear mandate to hold a second Scottish independence referendum, albeit it may not happen for a while, experts have said. The argument over Scottish independence has intensified in recent days after the SNP’s landslide victory in the Holyrood election, which also produced the largest pro-independence majority in the Parliament in the history of devolution. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has since stood by his pre-election position, saying the focus should be on the recovery from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic and not on another independence referendum. “The SNP fell one seat short of having the overall majority that they desperately wanted during the campaign,” Paula Surridge, Deputy Director at the UK in a changing Europe and senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, told NTD, a sister company of The Epoch Times, on Monday. “But there’s still a clear majority within the Scottish Parliament if you …