Inside the Stirling hotel summit that hatched the SNP's Holyrood election campaign

As the SNP meet for a one day conference in Edinburgh, Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon reveals how a two day event in Stirling laid the foundations for John Swinney's Holyrood election campaign.


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