Editor
Not even the most sanguine of SNP stalwarts anticipated a win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, but the scale of the defeat in the long-awaited byelection – “skelped”, as one prominent MP puts it – was bracing.
It is prompting soul-searching across the party and an immediate pushback on leader Humza Yousaf’s plan to put independence front and centre during the next general election.
Yousaf, who began this week gracing the cover of Time magazine as a “trailblazer shaping the…
