Kate Forbes is the SNP’s best hope
The finance secretary is the outstanding candidate to succeed Nicola Sturgeon and give the party the reset it desperately needs.
ByNicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon is Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister, holding office since 2014. Leader of the Scottish National Party, her avowed aim is Scottish independence through a second referendum on the matter. She has said that she wants one to be held in 2023. Sturgeon, born in 1970, is the first woman to lead her party or to be First Minister. Find our latest news and comment from Scotland editor Chris Deerin, here.
Nicola Sturgeon is the author of her own misfortune
The First Minister’s careless handling of the gender bill has split her government, her party and the nationalist movement.
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Why liberals keep being fooled in the gender debate
Had supposedly progressive politicians listened to women’s concerns over trans prisoners they would not have been so badly exposed.
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A Scottish transgender rapist has exposed Nicola Sturgeon’s dangerous complacency
The First Minister’s insistence that women had nothing to fear from the gender bill has been proved wrong.
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Stephen Flynn: “The Tories and Labour are one and the same”
The SNP’s new man in Westminster on the party’s internal divisions, Scotland’s gender bill and Brexit.
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Scottish Labour’s gender bill farce shows it’s not ready to lead
Anas Sarwar’s party risks coming across as a limp facsimile of the SNP.
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The tragedy of Nicola Sturgeon
As she enters the winter of her first-ministership, the gap between Sturgeon’s ambition and delivery is ever clearer.
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Will the gender reform battle boost support for Scottish independence?
Westminster’s veto has turned a debate over policy into one over Scotland’s power to govern itself.
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