Humza Yousaf doesn't reply to Alex Salmond's request for a pro-indy electoral pact

HUMZA Yousaf hasn’t responded to a proposal from Alex Salmond for a pro-independence electoral pact, the Alba Party claim.

faces “electoral disaster” if it does not back Alba’s calls to put up a single independence candidate in the forthcoming Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.

Salmond had asked to receive a reply by today in time for the ALBA National Council, which will be held in Rutherglen on Saturday to decide on whether to contest the seat. An Alba Party spokesperson said: “Humza wouldn’t engage on the simple principle of standing a single pro-independence candidate because he claimed there had been no overtures towards him.

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