Bitter contest between John Swinney and Kate Forbes to lead the party takes shape
First Minister Humza Yousaf leaving Bute House, the official residence of First Minister, after he announced that he will resign as SNP leader and Scotland’s First Minister they would oppose a “coronation” of Mr Swinney, after a group of senior SNP figures rallied round the party veteran as the main “anyone but Kate” candidate.
An arrangement with Alex Salmond’s breakaway nationalist Alba Party was unpalatable to many within the SNP, and Mr Yousaf said he was not willing to “do deals with whomever simply for retaining power”. They are not convinced that Ms Gilruth or anyone else in the cabinet has the experience or standing to take on Ms Forbes – a Free Church of Scotland Christian with socially conservative views who ran Mr Yousaf close last year. She won 48 per cent of the membership’s vote to Mr Yousaf’s 52 per cent at the final stage in the leadership battle.
Another Forbes supporter added: “She is the outstanding candidate. It’s been a mess. She would be the one to draw a line under the mess we’ve got into under Humza Yousaf.”Kate Forbes was narrowly defeated in the race for the SNP leadership by Humza Yousaf last year
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