Hello from Glasgow, where I’ll be standing in for Archie today while he suns himself on a beach. I imagine Humza Yousaf wishes he could join him.
It’s the first week back at Holyrood after Easter recess and the plan for Scotland’s new first minster seemed straightforward enough: after a bruising SNP leadership election – and amid increasingly damaging revelations about party governance that have followed Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation in February (including the shock arrest of her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell) – this was the moment to reset and focus on the way ahead.
