Still determined to make any future election all about them, it now looks like they’re punting that baffling and arrogant strategy down the road to the next Scottish Parliament election. Sound like a good use of their time to you? Me neither.

While the SNP attempts to head off a party civil war, our health service is on fire. Lib Dem research has shown things are so bad that one-in-six people who couldn’t get a doctor’s appointment last year conducted a medical procedure on themselves, or got someone else unqualified to do it.

We are coming out of a pandemic, granted, but other health services around the world don’t seem to be struggling in quite the same way. Indeed, perhaps the most startling international comparison can be found in the example I raised in Parliament with Nicola Sturgeon last week.

The distraction that has gripped the SNP/Green government over breaking up the UK has taken a heavy and bitter toll, one that is being measured in human lives. This government must urgently change tack and focus on the crisis in our health service or make way for someone who will.

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