“I DON'T actually think there’s going to be any MSPs left with Gaelic,” Eilidh Munro recalls thinking when she lost in the contest for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Holyrood seat.
The SNP candidate who had stood in former deputy first minister Kate Forbes’s seat lost to LibDem Andrew Baxter by less than 1000 votes. This was after Alasdair Allan had lost his seat to Labour’s Donald MacKinnon in Na h-Eileanan an Iar – a seat Allan had held since 2007.
