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Latest news on Kate Forbes, a Scottish politician who was a 2023 candidate for Leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland. She has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency since 2016 and has served as Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy since 2020. In 2018, Forbes was appointed as Minister for Public Finance in the Scottish Government, and in 2020, she became the first woman to deliver the Scottish budget and later succeeded Derek Mackay as Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy.