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Channel 4 News General Election 2015 Live Blog
25 April 2015
  • Other parties struggle to top the SNP’s fervent supporters

    3:26 PM
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    • Alex Thomson Chief Correspondent

    It took Ms Sturgeon more than 45 minutes to walk the 80 metres from Buchanan Steps to the interview position, amid the hundreds of people who had gathered to see her.

    The selfie-surge engulfed her as it might a film-star. It is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – that is the point, and as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see and I have never seen this in a UK election.

    Never.

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25 April 2015