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The Problem With the SNP's Longevity

In Sturgeon's case paper it seems to me, and this was true of her predecessor Alex Sammond, she ran the SNP really, from within a very very small clique at the top. I think that is a problem for the SNP and it's not just about the past, it's about the immediate future. Humsey Yousaf, Scotland's new first minister, new leader of the SNP, was very much Nicholas Sturgeon's man. If she's now fallen from grace and is in trouble, then that impacts more on him because he was part of the small clique. Then it might do on somebody fresh on you coming in, so it's a big big problem for him

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