Finance minister Forbes runs to be Scotland's next leader


FILE PHOTO: Scotland's Finance Secretary Kate Forbes presents the 2022 Scottish Budget at Scottish Parliament Building, in Edinburgh, Britain December 9, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell/Pool via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) -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.

Forbes, who was elected to the Scottish parliament in 2016 and became finance secretary in 2020, became the third candidate to enter the race to become Scottish National Party (SNP) leader after Sturgeon's surprise resignation last week.

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