Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Humza Yousaf attends the Scottish National Party (SNP) Annual National Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
LONDON (Reuters) - Three candidates are set to fight it out to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's next leader, with the winner facing the daunting task of uniting a country divided over its future and a party fracturing over how to pursue another independence vote.
Sturgeon, in office since 2014, unexpectedly announced last week she was resigning as first minister of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government, saying she had become too divisive.
