Salmond's approach will be to establish the SNP as the main opposition party in Scotland to Labour. This will mean developing and representing their policies on a wider range of issues than to date. Their policies are generally to the left of Labour though still Nationalist. But then, again 40% of voters favour independence although only half of these vote SNP -most of the remainder vote Labour. Salmond can only increase SNP support. If Labour lose the next election, the SNP could quickly become the largest party in 25 Scotland.*
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