Having airbrushed Alex from living memory,party leader gives Labour and the Tories lessons on loyalty and unity Shortly before the conference opened, Peter Murrell, and the Scottish National party’s chief executive and husband of the Scottish first minister,stepped out on to the stage to give the lectern a final wipe and polish. Nothing could be left to chance: everything had to be just so. For a party committed to independence, Nicola Sturgeon is the political equivalent of royalty.
While half the Conservative party doesn’t really care one way or the other if David Cameron stays or goes, and half the Labour party actively want to remove Jeremy Corbyn and half the Lib Dems don’t even know what Tim Farron looks like,Sturgeon is received with an adoration bordering on a holy rapture. Related: The Guardian view on the SNP: lords of all they survey – but for how long? | Editorial Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com