The three candidates vying to become Scotland’s next first minister will go head to head tonight in the first TV debate of the SNP leadership contest.
It’s inevitable that Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan will face questions on independence – and how they think it can be best achieved. But they must also be quizzed on domestic policies and how they plan to improve the lives of ordinary people in Scotland.
In today’s Daily Record, there are calls for the NHS, climate crisis and Scotland’s drug death crisis to be central to the contest to be our next first minister. So far we’ve head more about independence thermometers and de facto referendums than we have about these real issues.
