For a man who just returned to Westminster last May after an eight-year absence, Alex Salmond moves through the Houses of Parliament as if he had never left the place, greeting everyone he passes and exchanging banter with staff, most of whom he appears to know by name. Salmond only stopped being an MP for five years. From May 2007, when he became Scotland’s first minister, he was based in Edinburgh and made only occasional forays to London. Everything changed on September 19th last year, the day after Scotland rejected independence in a referendum by 55 to 45 per cent, and Salmond resigned as first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). It was, he admits over coffee in...
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