Those cunning geniuses at SNP HQ have done it again. Fed up with Forbes, Yousaf and Regan committing news at every turn, the spin doctors at Gordon Lamb House have come up with an ingenious plan to stop their candidates’ gaffes, attacks and infighting being reported. Their solution? Ban the journalists. Brilliant!
This latest wheeze was announced today following yet another Ash Regan attack on the SNP government, this time over the A9 dualling failure. A party spokesman confirmed that the media will not be allowed to attend the party’s nine leadership hustings events. They argued that:
It is the members who will be voting for the next leader of the party, so the SNP NEC has designed the party hustings as a safe space.
They’re also, er, choosing Scotland’s next First Minister. At least last summer the press were allowed into hustings between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, even if they couldn’t ask questions.
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