Leading the opposition against the SNP’s charismatic Alex Salmond wouldn’t have been an easy task for anyone, never mind a politician who had been collared for accepting an illegal donation within weeks of taking the job.
In the end Wendy Alexander – leader of the Scottish Labour party, and one of the few senior politicians in Britain whose poll ratings actually made Gordon Brown’s look good – fell on her sword.
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