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Craig Meighan

Swinney is a bluffer who will be ‘found out’ like Tisdale and Thelwell – Sarwar

John Swinney has been called a ‘bluffer’ (Michael Boyd/PA) - (PA Archive)

John Swinney is a “bluffer” who will be “found out” at the Holyrood election, the leader of Scottish Labour has said, as he compared the First Minister to unpopular leadership figures at Celtic and Rangers.

Anas Sarwar likened the SNP leader to Paul Tisdale, who left his role as head of football operations at Celtic after new manager Wilfried Nancy was sacked earlier this week, and former sporting director of Rangers, Kevin Thelwell, who was sacked in November.

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