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Scotland's new politics begin with some gentle persuasion

Alex Salmond would have preferred the 100-day programme he had set out on the election campaign trail.

Alex Salmond would have preferred the 100-day programme he had set out on the election campaign trail: an action-packed agenda for new laws, more spending, challenges to Westminster power and setting the independence ball rolling.