EXCLUSIVE: The likely next First Minster made the comments to the Resolution Foundation days before he declared.
First Minister-elect John Swinney wants more immigrants to solve the worker shortage crisis caused by Brexit.
Swinney has promised to restore the SNP to the “mainstream” and speculation is rife about his policy agenda. He added: “If you go back, again over the 25 years, Scotland was facing an acute challenge about the size of its working age population in the early part of the 21st century. Meanwhile, an SNP Cabinet Secretary said party members did not want to see a repeat of last year’s “bruising” leadership contest.
“There is a sense within the party that the last contest was a particularly bruising one, and I think there is absolutely a sense among members and activists that many of us would not wish to see that repeated.
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