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IT WILL be his crowning moment of a quite astonishing year. When Alex Salmond bounds on to the stage of a packed Osprey arena at the Macdonald hotel in Aviemore at 3:30pm today, to the inevitable standing ovation, the First Minister of Scotland will know he has truly made it.
Opening the conference on Friday, Salmond said that the Scottish people would be willing to accept that the SNP celebrates a little today: it is, after all, the first time in the party's history that its leader addresses them from a position of power. Only a few short years ago, the party appeared in danger of being torn apart by internecine feuds and lost confidence.See the full content of this document
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Yesterday, one London-based newspaper chose to devote its entire front page to the land of milk and honey which the SNP now controls. Underneath the headline "Scotland 10, England 0", The Independent listed the benefits of living north of the Border, such as "free" school dinners and "no" university fees. It was not entirely accurate, but it was indicative of a mood that will see Salmond today claim that, such is the change in Scotland's political landscape, he can deliver his promised referendum on independence in 2010. Life, for...
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