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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Paul Hutcheon

The winner of the SNP contest may find it impossible to lead the party and country

Nicola Sturgeon says she has left her successor a “brilliant foundation”, but the bitter SNP leadership contest shows it more like a pile of dust.

Whoever wins will lead a Government whose record has been trashed by two of the three candidates.

The victor will also have to pick up the pieces of a party apparatus in ruins over lies told about the loss of 30,000 members.

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