Scottish finance minister Kate Forbes on Monday set out her intention to run in a contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon as the country's first minister and said she would have opposed some of the government's policies such as gay marriage.
The 32-year-old Christian also said she would not have voted for the government's gender reform bill in its current form, the divisive legislation that made it easier for people to change their legal gender.
Sturgeon herself was embroiled in a row over transgender rights over the divisive bill, which was eventually passed in December but has since been"I don't support self-ID .. I think there is scope to revisit the bill. We need to make it a less onerous process but that is going to require a grown-up debate and discussion with the UK Government," Forbes told Channel 4.through a ballot of its members, which will close on March 27.
"We need a leader who's bold, brave and energised, fresh faced and ready for new challenges. Somebody who inspires your confidence as an SNP member, and who inspires the confidence of the people of Scotland to vote for a better future. I am that leader." Forbes, a fluent Gaelic speaker who worked as an accountant in the banking industry before entering parliament, said in an interview to the Scotsman newspaper that she would have voted against gay marriage as "a matter of conscience."
Hannah Bardell, a member of Scottish parliament belonging to the SNP, said on Twitter: "I would have hoped that given Kate has so many friends, including myself, who are LGBTQ and hold her and her talents in such high regard, she might have tempered them or at least considered her response a little more carefully.
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