After pressure applied by Ash Regan and Kate Forbes, and belatedly Humza Yousaf, the Scottish National party’s national executive committee has been told that the party’s membership has decreased by a third: from 103,884 members in 2021 to 72,186 members now.
Kate Forbes’s campaign team says that these ‘plummeting membership figures shows continuity won’t cut it’, while Ash Regan’s team has heralded the announcement as a triumph and noted ‘there has been a significant reduction in membership numbers since October 2022 following the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) fiasco’.
This follows allegations of election rigging after Ash Regan, with the support of Kate Forbes’s campaign, looked to be declaring all out war on the SNP establishment. Yesterday afternoon, she released an open letter addressed to Peter Murrell, the party’s CEO.
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