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Politics

A Scottish revolution is coming, and everyone’s losing their heads

9 April 2015

1:00 PM

9 April 2015

1:00 PM

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Normally, if a candidate whose party came fourth in a constituency last time tells you they’re going to win, you put it down to election derangement syndrome. But in post-referendum Scotland the normal political rules don’t apply. When Joanna Cherry, the SNP candidate for Edinburgh South West, says she’s headed for Westminster — despite the SNP picking up just 12 per cent of the vote here in 2010 — she is probably right.

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