Unlike the bare knuckle brawl on STV last week, the latest three-way sparring was more subtle and left no one sprawled on the ropes
Ballots opened hours earlier and with most party members expected to vote early Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan had an opportunity to deliver a knock out.
Yousaf has hugged Nicola Sturgeon's legacy close during the race and his repeated references to his “progressive” agenda were a dig at Forbes, who is a social conservative. Regan, the most fundamentalist candidate on independence, got an excruciating grilling from host Beth Rigby on her bizarre policy of moving towards a new currency within months of Scotland leaving the UK.
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