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Article: Stalking horse or not, SNP leader faces rough ride
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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JOHN SWINNEY is in trouble. The mutterings of discontent dogging
his leadership of the SNP have now turned into a real-life challenge
for his job.
And although he will, of course, end up with more votes than the
little-known Edinburgh-based academic Dr Bill Wilson, the contest
could fatally damage his position.
Dr Wilson argues the Nationalists are at risk of "New
Labourisation" - too much power in the centre and too little genuine
say for the members.
Loyalist MSPs are lining up to pledge their support to Mr Swinney,
but three of the party's parliamentary group have publicly welcomed
the challenge as a chance for a debate within the party.
And Campbell Martin, one of the new MSPs ...