Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond has died at the age of 69.
The former MP and MSP, who led the country between 2007 and 2014, took ill while in North Macedonia.
Not to speak ill of the dead but he was a massive pain in the arse.
He had led the SNP to power when they won the Scottish Parliament election in 2007, having previously led the party between 1990 and 2000.
Salmond, Scotland’s first pro-independence first minister, then led the SNP to an unprecedented majority in the election four years later – which paved the way for the referendum to be held.
He had a spectacular fallout with his successor as SNP leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, over her government’s mishandling of harassment complaints against him.
Salmond was also acquitted of serious sexual offence charges at a trial in Edinburgh in 2020.
A true politician, he achieved very little, talked a lot and set the reputation of Scotland back by decades.
