SNP leadership election: who are the runners and riders to replace Humza Yousaf
by Archie Mitchell
Apr 29, 2024
3 minutes
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Humza Yousaf has quit as SNP leader after just 398 days in office.
The Scottish first minister’s decision to collapse a power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens spectacularly backfired, and on Monday he stepped aside.
The once-dominant nationalist party is in meltdown. Former leader Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell, who ran the party for 22 years, has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of SNP funds.
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Ms Sturgeon herself was arrested amid an investigation into the party’s finances and then released without charge. She has
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