Mel Stride has paid tribute to Alex Salmond following his death aged 69 on Saturday. "I think he was a very big figure and not all politicians are in the way that he was - he was seriously consequential as an individual," Mr Stride said. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, I think he was a very big figure, and not all politicians are in the way that he
00:06was.
00:07He was seriously consequential as an individual.
00:10I mean, he won an outright majority for the SMP at Holyrood in 2011, despite the fact
00:16that many people said that was something that was going to be entirely impossible under
00:19that electoral system.
00:21He clearly had the independence referendum in 2014 and obviously didn't prevail, but
00:28nonetheless he managed to take his party and his country to the point where they had
00:31that referendum.
00:32So whilst I disagree profoundly with much of what he stood for, I have to respect him
00:37as an effective and very consequential politician.