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JIM SPENCE: Inside Alex Salmond meeting where he offered me Dundee SNP seat

The Courier 26 Mar 2025
'With MPs' pay set to rise to three times that of the average worker, I’m starting to think I should've accepted Alex Salmond's offer.' ... .
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New Alba Party leader Kenny MacAskill vows to ‘deliver dream of independence’

AOL 26 Mar 2025
“This was an election brought about by the tragic passing of our founder Alex Salmond ... Mr Salmond founded the party.
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Kenny MacAskill succeeds Alex Salmond as Alba leader

BBC News 26 Mar 2025
The former SNP justice minister defeated Ash Regan to lead the party after the death of its founder. .
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Kenny MacAskill named new Alba Party leader following sudden death of Alex Salmond

Daily Record 26 Mar 2025
Alba currently has just one MSP and no MPs with the fledgling party left fighting for attention in Scotland's crowded political scene ... .
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Alba to announce new leader after death of Alex Salmond but challenges remain for party

Daily Record 25 Mar 2025
An electoral breakthrough at Holyrood next year is vital if the breakaway pro-independence party is to have a long-term future ... .
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Nicola Sturgeon flogging signed copies of her book - months before it hits shelves | ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
However, critics have said claimed that her track record of failing to recall key information during inquiries into the Alex Salmond affair, the Covid pandemic and the ferries fiasco mean the book will need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Former SNP MP recalls Alex Salmond acquittal five years on from landmark trial

Daily Record 24 Mar 2025
Joanna Cherry said she hoped "one day to be in a position to assist in putting all of this in context" as she looked back at a case that gripped Scotland ... .
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GRAHAM GRANT:  It's time for an honest discussion about the SNP's 'free' degrees - but ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
In an act of hubris, Alex Salmond promised ‘free’ degrees - and even had the pledge carved into a commemorative stone at Heriot-Watt University ... Alex SalmondSNP.
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Sturgeon’s husband’s embezzlement case sparks secrecy row

The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
Prosecutors have been accused of giving Nicola Sturgeon’s husband preferential treatment compared to Alex Salmond by keeping secret the details of the embezzlement charge he is facing ... Alex Salmond.
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Nationalist grandee says SNP is ‘no longer the party for all of Scotland’

The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
Mr Ewing, who served as rural affairs secretary in Nicola Sturgeon’s government, and as a junior minister in Alex Salmond’s administration, said the party “must” change and his SNP membership was part of his “very soul” ... Shutterstock /Andrew MacColl ... .
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Former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon cleared in embezzlement probe that saw her ex-husband charged

Wtop 20 Mar 2025
The last such case also involved an SNP leader — Sturgeon’s predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, was arrested in 2019 and charged with a series of sexual offenses, including attempted rape.
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Will Nicola Sturgeon now make a political comeback?

The Daily Telegraph 20 Mar 2025
He, too, is not being charged and is no longer under investigation ... On the other hand, other more lucrative alternatives will probably offer themselves ... She has the example of her former mentor but later deadly enemy – Alex Salmond – to fall back on ... .
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Nicola Sturgeon has said her forthcoming book will be open and candid about her 'mistakes ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
The book will see Ms Sturgeon give her account of her relationship with predecessor Alex Salmond ... Parliament’s committee looking into the devolved government’s handling of the Alex Salmond affair.
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Reform UK support surges to highest level yet in Scotland in new poll

The Daily Telegraph 19 Mar 2025
Reform UK has recorded its highest support yet in Scotland, despite the party being embroiled in civil war, a new poll has found ... Jane Barlow/PA Wire ... The Alba Party, which was founded by Alex Salmond, is forecast to win a single seat ... She said ... X Icon ... .
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JOHN MACLEOD: In praise of the humble soap opera, where you can't make eggs without ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
But, in her first break-out role, she took her weekly jousts with Jack McConnell – and then, on more chucklesome terms, Alex Salmond – very seriously, studying the week’s events on the eve of every FMQs and devising delicious zingers ... Advertisement ... .

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