SNP is in turmoil but do the leadership candidates have any real solutions writes Gina Davidson
Since the firing of the starter’s pistol on the race to Bute House on February 15, the day Nicola Sturgeon announced she was resigning, Ash Regan, Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes have travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, attending nine hustings for party members - the people in whose hands the outcome lies - as well as taking part in three bruising television debates where they ripped each other’s records apart; and one televised audience Q&A, where candidates were not only on the end...
All three claim that if they get the keys to Bute House not only would they govern better than at any time in the last 15 years the SNP has been in power, but that they will succeed where both Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon failed and deliver independence. But there are also many who think it’s a concentration on those issues where the party has gone astray, and it needs to get back to fixing the NHS and helping people with the cost of living crisis. Then there are those who just want a laser-like focus on the economy. Get that bit right and everything else falls into place they believe.
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