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SNP leader’s bizarre Anas Sarwar rant

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In the midst of a new development in the never-ending motorhome saga, Humza Yousaf addressed a rather, er, sparse crowd at the SNP’s ‘national council’ event in Perth today. With a speech that was much longer than it should have been, Yousaf spent most of his time lashing out at the Conservatives. Quelle surprise.

‘We have the opportunity to ensure that Scotland is Tory free,’ the First Minister told his devotees this afternoon. ‘Not a single Tory MP left in Scotland. That is definitely a prize worth fighting for.’ Possibly because he knows that trying to retain all his party’s Westminster seats would be to fight a losing battle…

But Yousaf didn’t just contain himself to Tory-bashing. He quickly turned his attention to the real threat to his party: Labour.

‘Who else is going to stand up for Scotland?’ he roared, quite forgetting that under the last 16 years of SNP rule, the NHS Scotland is facing an existential crisis, the poverty-related education attainment gap has widened and the party’s primary cause — independence — is becoming a more distant fantasy.

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