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progress on independence, and protecting the rights of women and girls. Yousaf chose to announce his resignation rather than work with Alba, saying that he believed the vote of no confidence could have resulted in his favour, but he choose to resign instead as he was "not willing to trade values and principles, or do deals with whomever, simply for retaining power".
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Scotland campaign. In January 2014, she was elected to the national committee for Women for Independence. She recalled being “really passionate about Scotland becoming an independent country – I felt the arguments were really strong and I wanted Scotland to have more
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referendum on
Scottish independence, she would begin negotiations with the UK government on independence the next time political parties supporting Scottish independence received more than half of the vote collectively in an election to either parliament. She said she would establish a
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to make the process of bureaucratically transitioning less difficult. In 2019, she urged ministers to delay the bill, and, following that delay, in 2022 resigned from her ministerial role in order to vote against it.
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was elected the new leader on 27 March with 48.2% of first preference votes and 52.1% of the vote after third-placed candidate Regan's second preferences were redistributed.
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people to legally change their gender. Later that month, an exchange between Regan and fellow SNP MSPs
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democratic choice”. Regan was an events co-ordinator for YES Scottish Borders.
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Regan faced a selection challenge in 2021, from a local councillor.
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1671:"Ash Regan announces campaign to be SNP leader and First Minister"
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Boothman, John; Andrews, Kieran; Watson, Jeremy (28 April 2024).
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1834:"How big a threat to Humza Yousaf is a no-confidence vote?"
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Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs
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by phasing out extraction of oil and natural gas from the
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401:. Regan resigned in October 2022 in protest against the
980:"The independent thinker: An interview with Ash Regan"
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1781:"Former SNP MSP Ash Regan hits out at Yousaf's party"
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869:Matchett, Conor (28 October 2023).
562:Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
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2089:McKay, Gabriel (30 October 2023).
1896:from the original on 29 April 2024
1779:McKenna, Kevin (4 November 2023).
1368:"Ash Denham MSP's biography pages"
1322:"Election 2016: Edinburgh Eastern"
598:. Sturgeon appointed Regan as the
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2012:Green, Chris (19 February 2023).
1986:Robertson, Adam (23 April 2024).
1941:Swanson, Ian (24 February 2023).
1767:2016 Scottish Parliament election
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1341:Stephen, Phyllis (17 June 2016).
1272:. 12 January 2015. Archived from
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978:Taylor, Margaret (8 April 2022).
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118:Member of the Scottish Parliament
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