Sturgeon’s successor will inherit ‘mess’ of SNP at war with itself
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from World news | The Guardian on (#69ZWE)
Key resignations, ideological conflicts and drop in membership numbers have left the SNP close to collapse
They are phrases the Scottish National party once happily used as attack lines against the Conservatives and Labour: tremendous mess", unedifying" and spectacularly wrong".
Yet they came from the SNP's new acting chief executive and its honorary president, Mike Russell, and he was talking about his own party. I think it is fair to say there is a tremendous mess and we have to clear it up," he told the BBC on Sunday.
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