When Nicola Sturgeon introduced her imminent departure from the management of the Scottish Nationwide get together, she assured her supporters that there was a wealth of expertise vying to take her place.
As Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks tells Hannah Moore, the ensuing management contest has been a interval of chilly realisation for a lot of supporters of Scottish independence. Not solely do they not have a successor with something just like the stature of Sturgeon, the candidates are divided on financial in addition to social insurance policies and even the very best path to independence.
For a celebration that has grown used to success on the poll field in addition to iron inside self-discipline, it has been a bracing contest that’s now within the arms of the get together’s membership. On 27 March, they’ll announce a brand new chief and maybe the destiny of their get together.
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