SNP leadership candidate warns over devolution

Nicola Sturgeon has launched her bid to become the new leader of the SNP and Scotland’s first female first minister with an immediate warning that the Westminster parties will face an angry backlash if they fail to keep the promises they made on more powers for Holyrood.

In the final days of the independence referendum campaign, the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats pledged significant further devolution in the event of a No vote.

With Scotland voting to stay in the UK — a result that prompted Salmond to announce his intention to resign as both SNP leader and Scottish first minister — Sturgeon demanded those promises must be kept.