Scotland’s ruling party remains divided after the former first minister was acquitted of sex-related offences, says columnist and broadcaster Ruth Wishart
The advance billing suggested that in Scottish terms it would be the trial of the century. At its centre as a former first minister of Scotland – the man who secured a referendum on independence, thought the stuff of fantasy not many years before. This was the man who had led his party to a majority government in the Holyrood parliament in spite of a proportional system designed to prevent any such electoral outcome.
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