Scottish Greens must focus on working-class vote, says leadership candidate

Gillian Mackay says she does not think the Greens are ‘quite cutting through’ to working-class communities threatened by job losses. Photograph: Katharine Hay/PA

The Scottish Greens have to broaden their appeal beyond middle-class urbanites by talking to voters in industrial towns facing wholesale job losses, a Green leadership candidate says.

Gillian Mackay is one of four Scottish Greens bidding to win two co-leader posts after Patrick Harvie, the UK’s longest-serving party leader, quit as co-convener earlier this year.