Life Of Sean Connery

Connery was knighted in July 2000.
Connery is a member of the Scottish National Party, a centreleft political party campaigning for Scottish independence, and has supported the party financially and through personal appearances. In 2008, Connery said in the Scottish Sunday Express he believed that Scotland will become an independent country within his lifetime and praised the work of the SNP in a minority government after having won the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections. Connery has been frequently criticised for remaining outspoken on UK politics while living as a tax exile in the Bahamas. He has donated thousands of pounds to the SNP and has sworn not to return to Scotland until it is independent. He was also accused of hypocrisy for accepting a knighthood in 1999 from the Labour government.