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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Hill and Katie Boots.

So today is the closing of the nominations to become the next S&P leader

and a new poll is out showing where each of the candidates are with S&P voters.

Katie, tell us about this poll.

So what's striking about this poll is we've had a week in which I think many have said

Kate Forbes is ultimately imploded in terms of her campaign as we've documented on this podcast,

on Coffee House, in the magazine. Her comments about her faith, the fact that she said she would not

vote for gay marriage, had she been in parliament at that time, even though she did clarify

in that same interview that she would still push through the legislation for majority voted for it.

Along with comments about the fact that she didn't believe in sex before marriage,

again, saying others could do what they wanted, but the way this has all come out has led to,

I think, a consensus that Kate Forbes is now out of the race and has borne her chances.

Now it's definitely the case that is said to a backlash within the party.

We've seen some of her, you know, parliamentary, her MSP backers,

saying they're no longer supporting her, but this poll of S&P supporters finds the

contest is wide open. The polling's by opinion matters, so it was done between Monday and Wednesday,

which means you're still in the case where things could have moved on a bit since then,

but that would capture the main thrust, I think, of her comments because it was the start of the

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