Tributes Paid to Alex Salmond Following Sudden Death at 69

Published on October 14, 2024

Tributes have been paid to Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond, who campaigned tirelessly for Scottish independence, following his death on Saturday at the age of 69. Salmond died of a suspected heart attack at a conference in North Macedonia, shocking the political world in the UK. He had made a speech at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Forum and is understood to have collapsed at lunch in a crowded room. Salmond led the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in the 1990s and again between 2004 and 2014, taking the party into government for the first time and galvanising the movement for independence north of the border....

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