Salmond says party already has ‘significant following’ as Sturgeon accuses him of misleading Scottish voters
Alex Salmond will write to Ofcom and Scottish broadcasters to demand that his new Alba party – which he claims can secure a pro-independence super-majority at next month’s Holyrood
elections – be included in televised leadership debates.
The move raises the prospect of the former SNP leader going head to head with the current leader, Nicola Sturgeon, just weeks after denouncing her government as “failing” and accusing those close to her of trying to put him in
prison.