SCOTTISH nationalists tabled an amendment to the Scotland Bill yesterday that calls for Holyrood to be given control over future referendums on independence.

Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond and the SNP’s Westminster leader Angus Robertson are among six of the party’s MPs proposing the change to the legislation, which enters its final parliamentary stage with a House of Commons debate and vote today.

Last year’s referendum on Scottish independence was held only after the signing of the Edinburgh Agreement between the Westminster and Scottish governments.