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Kate Forbes

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

    New chancellor says she will make statement to MPs before summer recess about financial situation as she says UK economy has been ‘held back’

June 2024

  • Vaughan Gething.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour dismisses no confidence vote in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething as Tory ‘stunt’ – as it happened

    Andrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative leader, says vote reflects badly on Keir Starmer as Labour says vote is a stunt

May 2024

  • Canna advertises for new population<br>Looking view out to sea across rocks from the island of Canna; grassy slopes stretch down to the water and the islands of Rum and Sanday can be seen in the distance. The sky is grey and cloudy, and the sea dark.

    Scotland’s vulnerable marine life not properly protected, campaigners warn

  • Catherine Bennett

    Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell

    Catherine Bennett
  • First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaks during his debut at First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

    The Guardian view on John Swinney’s Scotland: a new start but also more of the same

  • John Swinney walks with Kate Forbes down a corridor at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood; pale wood doorways and window frames are seen to either side of them.  He wears a black suit, white shirt and tie, and she wears a black jacket over a skirt which is half bright pink and half red. They both look cheerful.

    Kate Forbes elected Scotland deputy first minister despite Green opposition

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Tory defector Natalie Elphicke apologises for comments about women who were sexually assaulted by her ex-husband – as it happened

  • Scottish first minister John Swinney appoints Kate Forbes as deputy

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour defends welcoming rightwing Tory MP Natalie Elphicke into party – as it happened

April 2024

  • Humza Yousaf waves alongside his wife, Nadia El-Nakla

    SNP looks to unity candidate after Humza Yousaf quits as first minister

    John Swinney emerges as favourite to become leader of party hit by series of damaging crises
  • Kate Forbes, Neil Gray, Jenny Gilruth and John Swinney

    Who is in the running to replace Humza Yousaf as SNP leader?

    As the Scottish National party leader announces his resignation, we look at likely successors
  • Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf in the lobby of the Scottish parliament on 29 February 2024.

    The SNP ditching its Green allies has backfired on Humza Yousaf – and set back the cause of independence

    Dani Garavelli
    The first minister’s latest misstep will worsen his party’s split along culture war lines, says Dani Garavelli, a freelance journalist and Herald columnist

November 2023

  • Helen MacNamara speaks during the Covid inquiry.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Lack of ‘female perspective’ in No 10 created problems with Covid policymaking, inquiry hears – as it happened

    Former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara is giving evidence to the inquiry

October 2023

  • Nicola Sturgeon, at the Scottish parliament, February 2021, with John Swinney

    Scotland’s government pushed to release all its pandemic WhatsApp messages

    Counsel to UK Covid inquiry intervenes after failure to disclose or possibly retain messaging app texts

April 2023

  • First Minister Humza Yousaf and Leader of the SNP holds his maiden speech at Scottish Parliament on 18 April.

    The Guardian view on the SNP in crisis: no more defying gravity

    Editorial: Even before the shock of a police investigation, a long incumbency and loss of ideological momentum were dragging the party down

March 2023

  • The members of the SNP cabinet pose for a group photograph on the steps of Bute House

    Yousaf names majority-female Scottish cabinet after Forbes rejects role

    New first minister announces appointments as he seeks to move past divisive leadership contest
  • Humza Yousaf Is Sworn In As Scotland's First Minister<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MARCH 28: Newly elected leader of the Scottish National Party Humza Yousaf poses with his family, including his wife Nadia El-Nakla (L) at the Scottish Parliament on March 28, 2023 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Humza Yousaf was elected as the new leader of the Scottish National Party yesterday after Nicola Sturgeon resigned in February. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

    Humza Yousaf says FM vote sends ‘strong message’ but SNP unity bid stumbles

    Scotland’s first Muslim leader hails victory but rival Kate Forbes rejects offer of cabinet post
    • The politics sketch
      Scottish National party in no mood to party as contest finally ends

      John Crace
    • Humza Yousaf inherits divided SNP amid clamour for reform

    • Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish National party

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