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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell

INSANE: Snp members feel disempowered says leadership candidate kate forbes | Vintage Vibes

Kate Forbes
Forbes said the party had lost the ability to listen to the public. Photograph: Paul Campbell/PA

Scottish National party members feel disempowered and in doubt about whether their party is genuinely democratic, Kate Forbes, one of the frontrunners to replace Nicola Sturgeon, has said.

The Scottish finance secretary told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg the dramatic resignation of the SNP’s chief executive, Peter Murrell, who is also Sturgeon’s husband, on Saturday amid a transparency row was a direct result of decisions being taken by “too few people”.

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