Scotland has laboured under a yellow weather warning for much of this week, which at least proves the Almighty has a sense of humour. For yellow is the colour of Scotland’s governing party, where the temperature is icy and the forecast is for blizzards ahead.
Is the phrase “SNP civil war” too strong? After all, leadership contests are often brutal affairs for any political party. There are matters of real substance at issue, too: Humza Yousaf thinks Nicola Sturgeon has been doing just fine, so more of the same is all that is required; Kate Forbes bluntly disagrees, and is pushing for a major reset; Ash Regan wants to erect an “independence thermometer”, which seems to amount to a sort of doomsday clock in Glasgow’s George Square.
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