The latest issue of Holyrood magazine, out on Monday, is an SNP conference special featuring exclusive interviews with First Minister Alex Salmond, who tells Editor Mandy Rhodes that the SNP would have to be “forced” into a coalition government if re-elected next year, and Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, who explains why she believes that the financial crisis is not an enemy of quality.

Additionally the SNP’s Westminster Campaign Co-ordinator Stewart Hosie MP writes that voters are coming to this General Election more disenfranchised and disappointed with the politics of London than ever before, while Politics lecturer Dr Paul Cairney from Aberdeen University asks if the honeymoon is well and truly over for the SNP.

We also have a round-up of this year’s CoSLA conference, Former First Minister Henry McLeish calls on the Liberal Democrats to lead the way towards a federal United Kingdom, and Professor John Curtice explains why the pre-election polls are unexpectedly looking up for Labour.