Sturgeon comments on SNP election campaign ‘nonsense’, says education secretary

Nicola Sturgeon’s claims that the SNP election campaign lacked “vision or big-picture thinking” are a “nonsense”, Scotland’s education secretary has said.First Minister John Swinney led the SNP to a fifth Holyrood victory in May, though the party failed to win a majority.Former first minister Ms Sturgeon commented on the recent Holyrood election campaign in a newly-published foreword to her memoir Frankly.She wrote that the SNP “rightly put Scottish independence centrally as an objective, but didn’t aways bring alive the opportunities it offers for people in a tangible sense”.Ms Sturgeon said there was a “lack of vision or big-picture thinking” from the SNP in the recent campaign.She said the election was a “triumph for my party” but that there are lessons in the result that it should heed