Alex Salmond urges next SNP leader to appoint 'competent' ministers in new Cabinet
Alex Salmond has urged the next SNP leader to appoint "competent" ministers in their new-look Cabinet.
It comes after Sturgeon this week stunned the political world by announcing she was resigning after more than eights years in power. "They certainly should replace all three ministers and put in their place competent people to address challenges in these key areas," he said. Waiting times in A&E wards have reached record levels while patients face a growing backlog in non-emergency procedures.
Despite being passed by a majority of MSPs last year, Tory ministers issued a rare Section 35 order to halt the bill from becoming law after claiming it was incompatible with existing equalities laws."You come to a compromise with the UK Government, and with your nine rebel backbenchers, who put forward perfectly sensible safe-guarding amendments which would have taken the sting out of the issue.
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