Humza Yousaf brings back Alex Salmond’s spinner

Even with the force of the mighty SNP establishment behind him, Humza Yousaf’s premiership is still struggling. So when your own side fails you, who better to call in than your arch-nemesis’s second-in-command? Kevin Pringle, Alex Salmond’s one-time spin doctor, has today been conscripted to help keep Yousaf’s sinking ship afloat. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer…

The man who helped Salmond’s SNP win a landslide victory in 2011 is to become Yousaf’s official spokesman: quite the choice for Nicola Sturgeon’s preferred successor. It’s perhaps rather fortunate for the First Minister that Pringle’s areas of expertise include ‘crisis comms’. For all his past successes with Salmond, he is going to have his work cut out with a politician as gaffe-prone as our Humza. 

Penning his final column in the Courier today, Pringle opined hopefully:

Despite all the difficulties and controversies, the SNP seems to me to retain its hard-earned and relatively recently-acquired status of natural party of government in Scotland.