Forbes came second in the bid to become SNP leader earlier this year, winning 48 per cent after the second round of voting.
Kate Forbes has said that she "maybe" would have won the SNP leadership race if she had not spoken about her religious views.The first week of her campaign did not go well after she said in TV interviews that she would have voted against gay marriage and that people were "wrong" to have children outside of wedlock.
When asked in a podcast with former Lib Dem leader and Christian Tim Farron about what would have happened if she had kept quiet on the "God stuff", Forbes said: “Maybe I would have won, but would then have fallen quite quickly because of these issues emerging. I think people admired and respected honesty.”
When asked about the first week of the contest, she said: “It was touch and go as to whether I would be given the chance to start talking about the economy, about social issues that weren't just those hot moral issues. And so it took quite a lot of effort to push it onto other issues.”
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