Alex Salmond's Post-Referendum Legacy

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Alex Salmond: Champion of independence leaves a fractured political legacy

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First Minister Alex Salmond leaves a fractured political legacy with a fractured legacy.

Salmond was a master of the strategically savvy soundbite, and of turning defence into attack.

He modernised and professionalised the SNP , ensuring its machinery was overhauled and its message was polished until it glinted like granite in the sun.

Salmond 's most consequential call was to throw the SNP 's weight behind the campaign for a Scottish Parliament as a stepping stone on the road to independence.

He sided with the so-called gradualists in his party rather than those known as fundamentalists who saw devolution as a diversion.

After 17 years in power at Holyrood , the SNP under John Swinney heads towards the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election.

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