Twelve of the worst moments of the SNP race (so far)

There’s still nearly three weeks to go in the SNP leadership race and already the clown-car moments are clocking up. A new Ipsos Scotland poll is out today which shows that Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes neck and neck, with the pair on 33 per cent and 32 per cent respectively, followed by Ash Regan on a distant third with 10 per cent. Below is a list of the lowlights so far…

Regan invokes 1776

The contest got off to a fairly inglorious start when Ash Regan referred to the American War of Independence as she proof that referendums were not the only way to secede from the UK. Appearing to compare Scotland to a British colony, the Edinburgh Eastern MSP said that this was ‘the normal way’ for independence to be achieved if Westminster refuses to negotiate. 

She told the BBC’s Sunday Show that: ‘There’s 65 countries have become independent from either the UK or the British Empire over the last while, and most of them actually didn’t use referendums.’