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13 March 2021

9:00 AM

13 March 2021

9:00 AM

Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin

After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had misled parliament and orchestrated a vendetta against him, for a moment it looked as if Sturgeon – aka Lady MacStalin – might be forced to resign, derailing the Scottish National Party’s expected victory at the 6 May elections – its planned curtain-raiser to demanding a second independence referendum.

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