One of the frontrunners to lead party warns it should not abandon Nicola Sturgeon’s progressive agenda
The Scottish National party risks making itself unelectable and losing the core argument for independence if it abandons Nicola Sturgeon’s progressive agenda, one of the frontrunners to succeed her has said.
Agreeing that the party is facing an existential choice as it chooses its next leader, Humza Yousaf laid out the electoral consequences of abandoning the SNP’s “winning formula” in vivid terms at the end of a week of unprecedented bitterness between candidates. His comments came as polling suggests the race between Yousaf and his closest rival, the socially conservative finance secretary Kate Forbes, is too close to call.
