Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the SNP First Minister must use his party's election defeat to deliver home truths to pro-independence supporters.
John Swinney said at his post-election press conference that the SNP had to think “long and hard” about the strategy for independence.
The First Minister should use any post-mortem to level with pro-indy supporters and give them the unvarnished truth. Sturgeon’s nine years as First Minister were punctuated by endless dates, deadlines and bogus milestones for a phantom referendum that was never going to happen. Swinney’s immediate priority should be devising a credible strategy that gives the SNP a chance of holding on to power at Holyrood in two years.
The same individual said the Michael Matheson and Operation Branchform scandals had also damaged the SNP reputationally on ethics.
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