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Labour leader Anas Sarwar and his Tory and Lib Dem opposites must let the public know what they have to offer, says reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Opposition must get ready for government

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

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

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answers questions from the floor after delivering a speech to the RSA Fellowship in her final public event as Scottish First Minister. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP it must not "throw the baby out with the bathwater"

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: PA

SNP is not in a mess, insists Nicola Sturgeon

Whoever succeeds Nicola Sturgeon needs to face up to the economic problems that Scottish independence would cause (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Using figures accepted by SNP, the economic cost of independence is shocking

Nicola Sturgeon will be delivering the keynote speech at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London today.

How to watch Nicola Sturgeon's speech at RSA

SNP leadership candidates Ash Regan, Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes (Picture: Paul Campbell/PA Wire)

Scotsman Letters: SNP has chance to be more meaningful party

Nicola Sturgeon with husband Peter Murrell

We need fresh Holyrood elections and we need them now - Brian Monteith

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

Nicola Sturgeon, pictured holding a campaign rally in 2017, will step down as First Minister and SNP leader later this month. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The SNP must now do the soul-searching it has been putting off since 2014

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes taking part in the SNP leadership debate in Inverness on Friday

Kate Forbes says decisions in SNP taken by 'too few people'

David Harris and other executives at Circularity Scotland Ltd will receive a combined £670,000 in annual salary and fees

Outrage over £300,000 salary of deposit return scheme boss

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: PA

Nicola Sturgeon says she has full confidence in SNP leadership race process

Nicola Sturgeon was quizzed over £87,000 bonuses paid to management at Ferguson Marine during a heated First Minister’s Questions.

FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon quizzed over bonuses paid to management at Ferguson Marine

SNP leadership candidates Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan

SNP leadership candidates demand party reveals its membership numbers

Nicola Sturgeon with Alex Salmond whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Inverurie in the Gordon constituency in 2015

SNP ministers set for court battle over report evidence on Sturgeon conduct

SNP leadership candidates were asked in a TV debate whether they thought JK Rowling, seen with her Companion of Honour medal, was a 'national treasure' (Picture: Andrew Matthews/WPA pool/Getty Images)

A democratic outrage reduced to culture war clickbait about JK Rowling

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

A man leaves a cross for his brother as part of a remembrance event for victims of drug deaths in Scotland (Picture: John Devlin)

New drug-death figures are a fitting epitaph for Sturgeon's time in office

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn celebrated 100 days in the job on Thursday.

How has Stephen Flynn fared in his first 100 days as SNP Westminster leader?

An employee works on a wind turbine blade bearing at the Siemens Gamesa factory – in Germany (Picture: Focke Strangmann/AFP via Getty Images)

Scotland is being left behind in the green industrial revolution

SNP leadership candidates Ash Regan, Kate Forbes and Humza Yousaf seem to agree Nicola Sturgeon's legacy is both golden and trash (Picture: Peter Devlin For Sky News via Getty Images)

Three SNP candidates are simultaneously praising and trashing Sturgeon's legacy

Michael Veitch, Parliamentary Officer, CARE for Scotland

Christians will pray that God provides Scotland with wise leadership - Michael V...

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 were asked if JK Rowling was a national treasure during the Sky Debate

SNP leadership candidates asked if JK Rowling is a national treasure

Health Minister Humza Yousaf has pledged to end the Union by 'any means necessary' (Picture: Craig Brough-Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Leader candidate Yousaf starting to sound desperate

Some in the independence movement 'reasonably question if Scotland is ready, yet, to transition to full statehood', according to SNP MSP Ben Macpherson

If SNP ditch confrontation for cooperation, Scotland will be better for it

Stewart Hosie claimed the UK Government managed the economy through ideology, not practicality.

SNP chief says Tory approach to economy is more 'ideological than practical'

John Swinney is backing Humza Yousaf

John Swinney declares backing for Humza Yousaf in SNP leadership campaign

Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan at the SNP leadership hustings on 8 March (Picture: Andy Buchanan - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Unconvinced SNP leader race is democratic

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

SNP leadership candidate Ash Regan taking part in the SNP leadership debate, broadcast on Channel 4, from The Engine Works in Glasgow, Scotland.

'Dead people may vote in SNP leadership election' warn Regan campaign

Labour leader Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during their visit to Siemens in Cambuslang. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says SNP has 'run out of road' in Scotland

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Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in deaths from alcohol consumption, according to a study. Jane Barlow/PA Wire.

MUP led to 150 fewer alcohol deaths a year, researchers claim

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

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

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answers questions from the floor after delivering a speech to the RSA Fellowship in her final public event as Scottish First Minister. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP it must not "throw the baby out with the bathwater"