Kate Forbes less so, given she has made clear in this contest not only that she would dispense with a number of key policies, but also that she doesn’t think her party has performed very well in government. It might be easier for Humza Yousaf – the continuity candidate in this battle – to argue that he is following what the Scottish people voted for in the May 2021 elections. Why is this attitude not applied to the SNP? Sarwar pointed out that Sturgeon herself had made a great deal of fuss about other leaders, including Rishi Sunak, taking over governments without their own election mandate. Now it is keen not just to be the second biggest party in Scotland, but a potential government. Sarwar took over a Scottish Labour party that was demoralised and confused. They’ll have Nicola Sturgeon’s record they won’t have Nicola Sturgeon’s mandate – a mandate given to her in a pandemic election when she asked people to support her for five years to get her through the pandemic and lead us to a national recovery. This is an SNP that screams about mandates: let’s be honest, the next SNP First Minister will not have the mandate. The Scottish Labour leader today argued that the new First Minister would have to seek their own mandate, saying:
That’s one of the reasons Anas Sarwar has called for a snap Holyrood election. Whoever wins the SNP leadership contest today is taking over a party that doesn’t know its own kind any more – and a government that’s struggling to blame its record entirely on Westminster. Unionist politicians are warming up for what they hope will be one of the biggest opportunities of the past two decades to undermine the independence cause.
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