Sturgeon bids for SNP leadership

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Nicola Sturgeon is bidding to become the new leader of the SNP and Scotland’s first female first minister after Alex Salmond, who is stepping down in November.

She began her campaign with an immediate warning to the Westminster parties that they will face an angry backlash if they fail to keep the promises they made on more powers for Holyrood.

She declared: “If I am elected to lead, I pledge today that the SNP and the Scottish Government will be full, active, genuine and constructive participants in that process of change, wherever it happens – in Holyrood, in meeting rooms and, most importantly of all, in discussions across Scotland.

“There will be no sitting on the sidelines.

“But let me be equally clear what I believe Scotland expects of that process in return.”