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John Swinney has been sworn in today as Scotland’s first minister, the seventh person to fill that role.
However, he has not only taken on responsibility for leading the country’s devolved government, he has also taken on the job of his party’s leader - with a Westminster election probably no more than six months away.
Governing Scotland is not easy at a time when public services are under pressure and the economy is flatlining.
But turning around the SNP’s fortunes could prove an even more demanding task.
When Humza Yousaf decided to throw the Greens out of the government, polls of voting intention for Westminster were on average putting the SNP on just 33%.
That meant the party was only neck-and-neck with Labour in terms of votes – an outcome that, because of the greater geographical concentration of its vote, would most likely result in Labour winning most seats.
That 33% figure represents no less than a 10-point drop in the party’s rating compared with where it stood when Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention to resign in February last year.
Read more from Professor Sir John Cutice here.
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