Nicola Sturgeon’s “Stalinist” approach to leadership had “disastrous” consequences for the SNP, former SNP MP Joanna Cherry has told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Speaking at an on-stage conversation with Matt Forde on Wednesday, the lawyer said Ms Sturgeon’s top-down approach lay behind the party failing to recognise concerns around gender self-identification, and its failure to achieve Scottish independence post-Brexit.
