As the candidates vying to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s first minister prepare for their first televised debate, they all agree on one thing: that the Scottish National party is at a crossroads.
That is an understatement. The contest to succeed Sturgeon as SNP leader has become an existential battle over the party’s direction, its policies and its ethos. The two leading candidates, Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes, are setting out competing visions – Yousaf is the continuity candidate and Forbes, 32, the youthful counter-revolutionary.
