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The Scottish Party initially acted more as a think-tank than an active political party, but received overtures from the founder of the NPS, John MacCormick to merge with the NPS to unify the elements of the Scottish Nationalist movement. The party's candidate for the November 1933 by-election in Kilmarnock received NPS backing, and this co-operation was firmed up by the merger of the two parties in 1934 to become the Scottish National Party.

On January 1, 2004 a former SNP parliamentary candidate and a party activist in the Shetland Islands Brian Nugent announced that he was forming his own pro-independence party, the Scottish Party in response to what he perceived to be a too pro-European stance by the SNP.

Nugent has announced that the platform of this party will be in favour of Scottish independence outwith the European Union. He intends that this party will contest the 2004 elections to the European ParliamentThe European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union. Other organisations of European countries such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well, but the European Parlia.

This Scottish Party later evolved into the Free Scotland PartyThe Free Scotland Party FSP is a political party operating in Scotland advocating Scottish independence. They were formed largely by Brian Nugent, a former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP) who announced on January 1, 2004 that he was forming a.