Record View says the next First Minister must make sure there is a competent team at the SNP HQ to gain trust from members and wider public
SNP leadership contests don’t happen often – in fact the party has been led by just three people since 1990. The Tories have gone through nine leaders in that time.
But no one could have predicted what a mess the whole event would become. The party has lurched from one avoidable gaffe to another. Ash Regan and Kate Forbes both reasonably expected to be told how many people would have a vote in the election contest. Humza Yousaf agreed with them.Top news stories today When it finally caved in last week, the figures showed the SNP had lost a third of its membership in two years. But it’s still comfortably the largest party in Scotland, so what was the big deal?
Veteran Nat Mike Russell, drafted in as interim chief executive, claims even he didn’t know about the drop-off.
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