Swinney can't spin way out of hospital scandal

MOST problems which a government encounters during its lifetime evaporate into nothing with a heartfelt apology or, at most, a resignation usually doing the trick.

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But occasionally one comes comes which is so serious, so damning and so jaw-dropping that no matter how hard you try, it refuses to go away.

John Swinney's worst nightmare has just landed on his doorstep.