Expect the atmosphere at SNP conference this week to resemble that of the last ten minutes of a football game, when one team is piling on the pressure and it seems inevitable that they will get a winning goal.
No-one knows how it’ll be achieved – perhaps a piece of individual brilliance, perhaps the other team will make a mistake, perhaps it’ll be a scrappy bundled-over-the-line affair, but the fans have the feeling that victory will be achieved, and soon.
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