Former PM expected to attack privileges committee inquiry as unfair before appearing before committee on Wednesday
the Scottish government’s finanance secretary and SNP leadership candidate, has said the turmoil in the party exposed at the end of last week confirmed her view that it needed to change.
I obviously strongly believe that the events over the last few days – which have of course hurt, and I think bemused, a lot of SNP members not least myself – have confirmed my calls from the very beginning of the contest, which is that we need change in the SNP, we need change in government and that change needs to be based on some very fundamental principles of honesty, competence, transparency.
I’ve said from the very outset that continuity won’t cut it, that the status quo wasn’t good enough and that we couldn’t just continue to go on as we were going on if we wanted different results. And that’s not just about policy, it’s also about the delivery of those policies and the culture that accompanies it.
But Forbes also said she was not in favour of the contest being re-run. She said she had confidence in the process and wanted it to reach its conclusion, which is due with the announcement of the new leader on Monday 27 March, a week today.has a good article here on how people in Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, where Forbes is the MSP, view her candidature.
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