
The first Scottish leader’s debate last night showed exactly why Alex Salmond wanted to stand beside Brown, Cameron and Clegg instead. It was fairly boring, badly-managed, low-key, ideas-free, slouching-on chairs not standing-to-attention – in short business as usual.
Perhaps if the SNP leader had taken part, sparks would have flown. But since devolution the sparkiest speakers are Holyrood leaders – not the men (uniformly) sent down to Westminster. Thus Angus Robertson for the SNP joined the Lib Dems equally competent but quite unknown Alasdair Carmichael, Labour’s Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy and the man with the loneliest job in politics – the Tories sole Scottish MP, David Mundell.
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