Former Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie has urged colleagues to be more like his late friend Margo MacDonald in treating others as “opponents rather than enemies”.

Harvie left his post after 17 years at the top of the party on Friday, following his decision to stand down earlier this year. Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay have been elected as the party’s new co-leaders.

Departing as the longest tenured political leader in Scotland, he has witnessed tectonic shifts in the landscape, including the first SNP majority, the independence referendum, Brexit, and Covid-19, and he even served for three years as a Scottish Government minster as a result of the Bute House Agreement.

Harvie told the PA news agency that in that time there has been some positive change, but he labelled the polari

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