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When Nicola Sturgeon announced her imminent departure from the leadership of the Scottish National party, she assured her supporters that there was a wealth of talent vying to take her place.
As Scotland correspondent Libby Brooks tells Hannah Moore, the resulting leadership contest has been a period of cold realisation for many supporters of Scottish independence. Not only do they not have a successor with anything like the stature of Sturgeon, the candidates are divided on economic as well as social policies and even the best route to independence.
For a party that has grown used to success at the ballot box as well as iron internal discipline, it has been a bracing contest that is now in the hands of the party’s membership. On 27 March, they will announce a new leader and perhaps the fate of their party.
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