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Article: Attacks get personal as SNP battle heats up
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 30, 2003
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THE battle lines were drawn yesterday in the increasingly
acrimonious contest for the leadership of the Scottish National
Party, as allies of both contenders launched personal attacks on
their rivals.
Bill Wilson, an Edinburgh activist, is standing against John
Swinney, the current party leader, for the leadership at the party
conference in September.
Dr Wilson has almost no chance of success, but his decision to
stand "for the grass roots" has sparked a bitter bout of bloodletting
in the party over who should lead the SNP and where it should go.
Jim Sillars, a former SNP deputy leader and a fierce critic of the
leadership for some time, used a newspaper column to launch a tirade
against ...