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Ruth Davidson won Edinburgh Central in 2016 at Holyrood by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Greens won ALAN Crocket (Sunday National, January 17) is wrong in his one-sided call for the SNP to stand down on the list in favour of the Greens and others. The first fatal flaw is there is no guarantee that we will win as many as 70 seats out of 73. This is, I sadly fear, over-optimistic, especially as the Greens have confirmed they will be standing candidates in the constituencies. Has he forgotten that in 2015 David Mundell retained his Westminster seat over the SNP by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Green candidate won?
Humza Yousaf said there had been ‘candid’ talks with the UK Government (Scottish Parliament/PA)
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MSPs have voted to deny consent for a Bill which aims to protect undercover agents, saying greater safeguards are needed against lawbreaking.
The SNP, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens voted against granting consent to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which is going through Westminster.
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Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie.
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