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It’s looking black for Gray as Salmond leaps ahead

That old cliché about a week being a long time in politics has never been truer than in this Scottish election campaign.

This time last week, the poll of polls still indicated that Iain Gray was on course for Bute House. Commentators were picking holes in the SNP’s election manifesto, with its fantasy forecasts for green energy.