The SNP leadership contest, which ends tomorrow, has been marked by bitterness and rancour
Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie has urged Nicola Sturgeon’s successor to lead with “transparency and openness” amid controversy around the SNP’s membership numbers.
And as leadership candidates Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan wait to find out if they have been chosen by SNP members as the new leader, Baillie accused the party of “secrecy and spin”. She also called for questions to be answered into the two ferries which are now five years late, and the cost has nearly tripled to £300 million.“After 16 years in government, the SNP have become arrogant and out of touch, with an increasingly loose relationship with the truth.
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant – we need real transparency and openness to end the culture of cover-up at the heart of the SNP.”
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