From provocation to power: the SNP’s tricky road ahead | Martin Kettle

Despite their fractious first week, ‘the 56’ MPs may find Westminster life changes them in unexpected ways

They have had their amazing night of electoral triumph. They have had their photocalls with Nicola Sturgeon by the Forth bridge and outside the House of Commons. Inside the Commons they have taken their dispatch box selfies, have made their prickly point by affirming rather than taking the oath, and have played silly buggers with Dennis Skinner over who sits where.

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It remains to be seen whether the SNP have tougher tactics in their locker, or the will to deploy them

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