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Following in JFK’s footsteps
“Why did Kate Forbes do it?” wonders Fraser Nelson in The Daily Telegraph. After years in frontline politics, the “smartest woman in Holyrood” must have been aware of the inevitable backlash she’d face by declaring her opposition to gay marriage. “Yet she did so anyway: immediately, almost proudly.” Even though she emphasised that she wouldn’t try to change the law, Forbes was denounced as a bigot and her backers in the SNP leadership race peeled away. Callers told a BBC Radio phone-in they’d feel “unsafe” with her in power; one even compared her with the Taliban. She appears to have torched not just her campaign, but likely her political career. “Why?”