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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Paul Hutcheon

SNP MP claims forcing early Holyrood election would lead to Douglas Ross as First Minister

The SNP’s longest-serving MP has said plans to turn the general election into a de facto referendum on independence are a “massive gamble”.

But party veteran Pete Wishart said the strategy may be the “only way” to resolve the constitutional question and possibly the “best last chance” of independence.

He also upped the ante by claiming that dissolving Holyrood would lead to voters installing Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross as First Minister.

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