New SNP leader and Scottish first minister to be revealed after bitter contest

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New SNP leader and Scottish first minister to be revealed after bitter contest
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Humza Yousaf, Ash Regan and Kate Forbes have been campaigning for weeks in a bid to become Scotland's first minister and the SNP's new leader. The winner will be announced this afternoon.

The party's head of communications quit after it emerged he had provided false information to a newspaper.

The contest has been bitter and fractious with the candidates, two of whom are serving cabinet minister, trashing and attacking their own government's record.

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