About five years ago, my dear colleague Kenny Farquharson — kudos to him — wrote a column that some detractors found memorable for all the wrong reasons. Because Kenny made a case for why, improbable as it may seem, Kezia Dugdale could succeed Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of Scotland. In his view, she is in a better position to do so than Ruth Davidson.
God, how the people screamed! But Kenny wasn’t predicting anything; he was simply outlining a means by which something could happen. The logic underlying his argument was not as strange as his conclusion. In this game, you can be believable, even if the events afterwards leave you looking like a wall.
So this is in the spirit of collegial flattery
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