Former SNP chief Alex Salmond has mentioned Humza Yousaf has “days to avoid wasting his first ministership” following the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election defeat.
The SNP got here a distant second to Scottish Labour, in a end result Sir Keir Starmer has described as “seismic”.
Despite being the 2 front-runners for the whole thing of the race, the SNP’s Katy Loudon misplaced with a greater than 20% swing to Labour’s Michael Shanks.
Alba Party chief Mr Salmond – who has been an open critic of the SNP since he jumped ship forward of the 2021 election – sought to heap stress on the person he appointed as a minister for the primary time.
“(The end result) is one thing that the SNP have been asking for,” he mentioned.
“The SNP fought an incompetent marketing campaign in an pointless by-election and have been comprehensively dropped by Labour.
“I see that Humza says it is disappointing, properly I do not suppose that fairly will get the enormity of what he is dealing with.
“In my view, Humza’s bought days to avoid wasting his first ministership.”
