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Think Scotland
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THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT is a reputationally challenged disaster-zone, struggling beneath myriad policy-outcome failures. There is a good reason John Swinney has emerged as SNP leader and new First Minister, unopposed. The leadership crown has become something of a poisoned chalice.
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The SNP has sunk so low nobody with a political future wishes to lead it.
Despite the party rallying around yesterday’s man, Swinney himself undoubtedly knows he isn’t the man for the top job. Just last year he declared he wasn’t up to it. Declining to run after Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation he said his party “needs space to allow fresh talent and fresh thinking to come to the fore”. He added it was important “that somebody else take the party forward.”
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