Former Stirling Council boss appointed interim SNP chief executive

The erstwhile brag of Stirling Council has been appointed arsenic the SNP’s interim main enforcement aft the resignation of Murray Foote.

Carol Beattie was appointed interim main enforcement by the party’s nationalist enforcement committee (NEC) connected Saturday.

Mr Foote announced plans to measurement down connected Friday aft conscionable implicit a twelvemonth successful the job, saying helium would beryllium incapable to “make the indispensable idiosyncratic commitment” to pb the SNP done the ongoing “process of interior reorganisation and renewal” up of the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections.

The erstwhile Daily Record exertion – who served arsenic the party’s caput of communications earlier resigning successful a enactment implicit rank figures – is expected to proceed moving with the SNP to assistance the modulation to its adjacent imperishable main executive.

Ms Beattie, who described her assignment arsenic a “huge honour”, was Stirling Council main enforcement from 2019 until her resignation successful May this year.

She said: “I look guardant to gathering the squad astatine the earliest accidental and moving with colleagues whose efforts person delivered the occurrence of the SNP to date.

“I mean to discarded nary clip successful getting connected with the important occupation of strengthening the party’s office functions and supporting the enactment arsenic a formidable nationalist organisation.”

SNP depute person Keith Brown welcomed Ms Beattie, saying: “She brings sizeable acquisition to the relation and her assignment volition proceed the work, nether John Swinney’s leadership, to guarantee a professional, modern, dynamic election-winning organisation.

“The SNP remains the ascendant governmental unit successful Scotland – and Carol Beattie’s assignment volition guarantee we stay equipped for the tasks ahead.”

Ms Beattie volition beryllium tasked with stewarding a enactment which faced a crippling decision successful July’s wide election, going from 48 seats won successful 2019 to conscionable 9 MPs.

In his code to the yearly enactment league – the archetypal since becoming First Minister earlier this twelvemonth – Mr Swinney told delegates helium would question to crook the SNP into “the astir professional, modern, dynamic election-winning organisation”.

Party sources astatine the clip claimed this included a revamp of interior processes, specified arsenic canvassing software.