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The election is “over and done with” in England, but in Scotland the contest between Labour and the SNP is still on, says John Swinney.
The SNP leader, a respected party veteran who stepped into the role barely two weeks before the election was called, acknowledged that the framing of the campaign around Labour’s drive to kick the Tories out of Downing Street had made it “a challenge” for the nationalists to push their own agenda.
