Sturgeon's successor: Meet the SNP leadership candidates
This Is Why
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan have been accused of 'trashing’ their own party in a series of TV debates as they set out their policies and attack each other's records in government.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s Scotland correspondent to take a closer look at the candidates, plus pollster Sir John Curtice looks at who is most likely to come out on top.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:00.1 | If you thought the Conservative Leadership Contest was brutal, hold the bus and wait till we tell |
| 1:05.6 | you what's been going on in Scotland. Nicholas Sturgeon's decision to step down as first minister and leader of the SNP |
| 1:14.8 | took pretty much everyone, bar her by surprise. |
| 1:18.8 | Now, she remains in post until the end of March, |
| 1:21.2 | whilst the party she's led since 2014, |
| 1:23.7 | works out who best to fill her shoes. |
| 1:26.7 | And let's just say the candidates haven't exactly been playing nicely. |
| 1:30.2 | When you were a transport minister, the trains were never on time. |
| 1:33.1 | When you were a justice minister, the police were strained to breaking point. |
| 1:36.5 | And now as health minister, we've got record high waiting times. |
| 1:40.7 | In the first week of your campaign, you had people who voted, yes, leave your campaign. |
| 1:45.2 | As I've just said, the mud-slinging on this needs to stop, and I'm calling for calm. |
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