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Labour's glee at the fall of HBOS risks backfiring

Iain Macwhirter on political capital

Scottish Labourites at their conference in Manchester last week were practically punching the air at the collapse of HBOS. They think the crisis vindicates their Unionism and reveals Alex Salmond as a tartan fantasist living in an economic Brigadoon.