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Formerly TwitterDouglas Ross MP MSP
Douglas4Moray
Time and time again, only the @ScotTories have stood up to the SNP.
We forced Humza Yousaf to resign.
But we won’t rest until the SNP is driven from office.
conservativehome.com/2024/05/02/douglas-ross-we-have-fought-hard-to-see-off-yousaf-but-will-not-rest-until-the-snp-is-driven-from-office
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Ian Blackford 🇺🇦🏴
Ianblackford_MP
I am in no doubt that the best interests of the SNP, and all of Scotland, are best served by John Swinney becoming the new SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland.
John is one of those rarest of things in modern politics – respected and admired across the political divide.
He… pic.twitter.com/kXPgz5ukJB
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alexmassie
alexmassie
The SNP are upgrading their leadership. The opposition should have done all they could to keep Humza Yousaf in Bute House. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/humza-yousafs-opponents-are-going-to-wish-he-was-still-in-power-rkb0kf06q
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David Gauke
DavidGauke
Like the Conservatives in 2019, the SNP built a broad but contradictory coalition, united on an issue that is of diminished relevance. My @NewStatesman piece on one of the challenges facing the new leader.
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/05/the-snps-contradictory-coalition-is-fracturing
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