Snp Could Be Back in Business If They Target the Scottish Economy

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WE used to say that the only time London paid any notice to Scotland was when the SNP were on the march.

Six years after devolution, that remains as true today as ever. If the Nationalists had been forging ahead in the polls, dominating the airwaves, seizing the agenda, it seems most unlikely that Tony Blair would have been allowed to deliver his comic opera performance at the Scottish Labour conference a week ago, when he launched the party's Scottish election campaign with a speech about the English health service.

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Snp Could Be Back in Business If They Target the Scottish Economy

''That speech'' was a gift for the SNP, and has been much rehearsed at their Dundee conference. Their leader, Alex Salmond, condemned it as an ''insult to Scotland''. But it seems Scotland isn't so easily insulted any more. A few years ago, the...

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