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Nato debate could define SNP

ALEX Salmond has long enjoyed a rather one-sided relationship with dissent.

In the 1980s, his rebellious streak helped establish him as a coming politician while the same defiance and appetite for confrontation also made him an early critic of the Iraq war and earned him Tony Blair's lasting enmity.

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