
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 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.
The finance secretary is the outstanding candidate to succeed Nicola Sturgeon and give the party the reset it desperately needs.
ByThe First Minister’s careless handling of the gender bill has split her government, her party and the nationalist movement.
ByHad supposedly progressive politicians listened to women’s concerns over trans prisoners they would not have been so badly exposed.
ByThe First Minister’s insistence that women had nothing to fear from the gender bill has been proved wrong.
ByThe SNP’s new man in Westminster on the party’s internal divisions, Scotland’s gender bill and Brexit.
ByAnas Sarwar’s party risks coming across as a limp facsimile of the SNP.
ByAs she enters the winter of her first-ministership, the gap between Sturgeon’s ambition and delivery is ever clearer.
ByWestminster’s veto has turned a debate over policy into one over Scotland’s power to govern itself.
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