THAT Alex Cole-Hamilton will succeed Willie Rennie as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats is as obvious as it is certain. Long-distance runners such as Mr Rennie do not do much in the way of relay running, but it has long been evident that one day he would pass his baton to the one-to-watch, the spic’n’span new boy from Edinburgh, Holyrood’s best-dressed MSP, Mr Cole-Hamilton. That Willie Rennie has chosen this summer to spend more time on his long-distance running trails has generated plenty of column inches on whether his party has a future. With only four MSPs in Holyrood and four Scottish MPs in Westminster, the party is in the doldrums, but Alex Cole-Hamilton’s bid to succeed Mr Rennie raises a deeper question – and a much more important one – whether liberalism itself has a future in Scotland and, if so, whether Cole-Hamilton is the man to shape it.
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