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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks

‘I am losing faith’: disaffected Scottish voters may deny SNP a majority

The first minister, John Swinney in a pet shop talking to the man on the counter
The first minister, John Swinney, in Hamilton on the final day of campaigning for the Scottish election on Wednesday. Photograph: Wattie Cheung

It was supposed to be a carefully choreographed walkabout for John Swinney through his party’s target seat of Hamilton. Instead, the Scottish National party leader was confronted by angry voters, including his own.

Natasha Kelly, 35, railed against the local council’s failure to improve the damp council flat that had left her 13- and eight-year-old boys with chronic asthma.

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