SNP leadership race: John Swinney announces bid to replace Humza Yousaf

John Swinney has formally announced his bid to be the next leader of the SNP. 

Will Kate Forbes foil the SNP’s succession plan?

The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, subscribe here and never miss this daily briefing. Humza Yousaf resigned at noon yesterday in the face of two confidence votes, after he dramatically brought the SNP’s power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens to an end last week. It was a disorderly demise. But so quickly did […]

SNP leadership race: The key problems facing Kate Forbes’ candidacy

It was 2003 when New Labour spinner Alastair Campbell apprised an interviewer “I’m sorry, We don’t do God”, stepping in before prime minister Tony Blair’s religiosity could be probed. The poignant intervention, as Blair readied to answer a question on whether his Christianity created common ground with US President George Bush, has taken on a […]