Ash Regan

Members of the Scottish Family Party protest alongside supporters of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, ahead of a debate on the bill.

Gender critical event would have 'peddled misinformation and transphobia'

A march in Glasgow

'De facto' independence referendum is still an option says minister

Ash Regan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ash Regan calls for cross-party independence convention amid Yes ‘divisions’

SNP leadership candidate Ash Regan during the SNP leadership debate in Aberdeen in March.

Ash Regan appoints ex-Alba candidate as senior policy advisor

Alba Party leader Alex Salmond was speaking at a rally held by independence campaigners All Under One Banner. Picture: Getty Images

Alex Salmond leads chants for Scottish independence at rally

Humza Yousaf hugs Kate Forbes in the main chamber during the vote for the new First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh earlier this year.

Forbes rejects reports her supporters are planning 'coup' to replace Yousaf

SNP: Support for the party going from strength to strength says Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf says support for the SNP is 'going from strength to strength'

Humza Yousaf at the launch of the 'Football for All' Spartans Community Football Academy, in Edinburgh, while on the leadership election campaign trail that resulted in him becoming SNP leader and First Minister. Picture: PA

Why Yousaf's chances of a successful career as First Minister are 'not great'

Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf

Ash Regan snubbed by Humza Yousaf as he unveils full ministerial team

New First Minister Humza Yousaf with his deputy Shona Robison. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Humza Yousaf announces Shona Robison as deputy and confirms role for Kate Forbes

Humza Yousaf speaking at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, after it was announced that he is the new Scottish National Party leader, and will become the next First Minister of Scotland. Picture date: Monday March 27, 2023.

Parliament to elect a next first minister: When will Humza Yousaf be sworn in?

Humza Yousaf pictured after being elected as the new SNP party leader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Why unionists should not celebrate Yousaf's election as SNP leader

SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan

Brutal and divisive: the twists and turns of the SNP leadership race

Humza Yousaf reacts as he is elected the new SNP leader. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Humza Yousaf pledges to 'reach across the divide' after bitter SNP race

Humza Yousaf reacts as the SNP vote for their new party leader

Humza Yousaf to request Section 30 order for IndyRef2 ‘right away’

Humza Yousaf with his wife Nadia El-Nakla and family at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, after it was announced that he is the new Scottish National Party leader, and will become the next First Minister of Scotland.

Analysis: Yousaf inherits divided party, but relief was overwhelming emotion

Newly appointed leader of the SNP, Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf elected new leader of the SNP after bitter contest

Humza Yousaf is set to become Scotland’s youngest first minister after a full on leadership campaign.

Where does Humza Yousaf stand on the key issues?

Kate Forbes is the new favourite at the bookies with Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan also running

Leadership odds for next SNP leader at the bookies

The leadership candidates - (from left to right) Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf. Picture: Getty Images

New SNP leader and next First Minister set to be named

The leadership candidates - (from left to right) Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf. Picture: Getty Images

New leader must ‘pick up the pieces’ of Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘woeful record’

The three SNP leadership candidates - Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan

When will the next SNP leader be announced?

One of the three leadership candidates is set to become First Minister this week.

What happens after the next SNP leader is elected?

Humza Yousaf is seen during the First Ministers Questions (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Humza Yousaf hopes to have Nicola Sturgeon ‘on speed dial' if he wins

Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party Patrick Harvie at the 2023 Scottish Green Party Spring conference (Pic: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

SNP leadership: Greens’ clearest signal yet they wouldn’t work with Kate Forbes

Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie

SNP leadership contest: Labour warns new leader ‘must clear out the rot’

Finance secretary Kate Forbes (left), ex-minister Ash Regan (centre), and health secretary Humza Yousaf (right) are seen arriving at the BBC televised leadership debate in Edinburgh. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty images

Panic has set in within SNP, say party insiders

Like former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, Nicola Sturgeon kept the SNP's demons at bay with her reputation and managerial style (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP can learn from Tories about recovering from an 'utter shambles'

The leadership candidates

Forbes most favoured among Scots but Yousaf leads SNP voters, poll suggests

Outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and outgoing Deputy First Minister John Swinney hug before leaving the main chamber after her last First Minster's Questions (FMQs) in the main chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

Sturgeon makes plea for SNP unity as she is accused of lies in stormy final FMQs

Nicola Sturgeon, seen with Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate during the COP26 summit in Glasgow, put significant energy into climate change issues (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Why is climate change the forgotten issue in SNP leadership contest?

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes, who has said it is "highly, highly unlikely" she would stand again for the position if she is not elected this time round. Picture: Paul Campbell/PA Wire

Forbes 'highly unlikely' to stand again if not elected to succeed Sturgeon

SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan

Next First Minister urged to forge 'honest and open partnership' with business

Nicola Sturgeon during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood

SNP accused of 'shameful' attempt to shield new First Minister from scrutiny

SNP candidate Ash Regan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP rejects call to allow members to change their vote in leadership race

The SNP misled its own supporters over the party's membership figures (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

SNP 'clusterburach' means multiple crises will slide further down party's agenda

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has said she has confidence in the process to find a new leader and does not wish the contest to be rerun.

Kate Forbes ‘very confident’ in SNP leadership process

Martin Sheen played fictional President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing.

Ash Regan statement uses almost exactly the same words as speech from West Wing

The leadership candidates

Whoever wins SNP leadership, the race has done profound damage to the party

Peter Murrell is under mounting pressure

Euan McColm: SNP took its supporters for granted, and the rest of us for fools

Are SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes and Ash Regn trying to counter a conspiracy or create one? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP candidates 'putting a smell' on the whole party operation – Brian Wilson

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes during a visit the Empower Women for Change organisation in Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

Forbes refuses to commit to conversion therapy ban as TV debate fails to spark

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks with the gathered media following First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament

SNP finally releases current membership figures, showing huge drop since 2021

Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf taking part in the SNP leadership hustings at Eden Court, Inverness.

Analysis: Conspiracy theories as SNP leadership race plummets into chaos

Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf, and Ash Regan are running to be Scotland's next First Minister

SNP leadership candidates call for independent auditor amid concerns over vote

SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan

SNP leadership candidates demand party reveals its membership numbers

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes as she is shown produce during a visit to Jamesfield Farm Shop in Abernethy. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Forbes pledges to refresh Cabinet if she succeeds Nicola Sturgeon

Lattice pylons should no longer be accepted for any new power line construction, a reader writes

Readers' Letters: Don’t trash our landscape to save the planet

Stephen Flynn has rejected claims the SNP is facing an “existential crisis” amid infighting within the leadership contest.

No ‘existential crisis’ within SNP amid leadership battle, insists Flynn

The SNP leadership candidates will go head to head in a BBC Debate Night special

How to watch BBC's SNP TV debate special

The SNP leadership candidates were asked if JK Rowling was a national treasure during the Sky Debate

SNP leadership candidates asked if JK Rowling is a national treasure

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes

Kate Forbes rated highest by voters on key issues, new SNP leadership poll finds

John Swinney is backing Humza Yousaf

John Swinney declares backing for Humza Yousaf in SNP leadership campaign

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has given his backing to Humza Yousaf in the race to be Scotland’s next first minister, saying the Scottish Health Secretary can take the party to “new heights”.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn backs Humza Yousaf in leadership contest

Kate Forbes delivered a carefully targeted Exocet across the bows of 'continuity' SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

'Mediocre for Scotland' won't make a great SNP election slogan – Brian Wilson

Three flawed candidates, Ash Regan, left, Humza Yousaf, and Kate Forbes, are standing to be the next leader of the SNP (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Whichever flawed SNP candidate wins will face major challenge from Labour

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Protesters from Ocean Rebellion demonstrate next to an oil platform on the banks of the river Tay, calling for a halt to plans to open the giant Rosebank oil field, off Shetland, which could yield up to 500 million barrels of oil. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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