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STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: New SNP leader Humza Yousaf

“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader. 

That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment. 

Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland. 

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