The SNP’s Fergus Ewing has claimed his party no longer cares or believes in people and businesses and is out of step with the majority of Scotland.
In an explosive interview with the Sunday Mail, he told how the coalition with the Scottish Greens is leaving thousands of voters believing the SNP are “in office but not in power”.
The the former government minister, 65, who has won six terms as a constituency MSP at Holyrood since 1999, has been angrily attacking his own party.