The union represents health staff including those in the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Holyrood ministers will be allocated the additional funding through Barnett consequentials in light of the Chancellor’s spending plans for England.

The SNP leadership contender said the situation is ‘completely unacceptable’.

She said she would appoint ministers with ‘lived experience’ of their briefs.

The SNP Westminster leader said once the new first minister is in post, the party must ‘come together and move forward together’.

Ms Forbes and rival Ash Regan have warned changes could be needed to the deal between the Greens and the SNP.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said he does not fear any of the SNP leadership candidates becoming first minister.

The Labour leader said his party has an opportunity following the infighting within the SNP.

The party leader was speaking during a visit to Glasgow on Friday.

Stewart McDonald has written a new paper for think tank Reform Scotland on how Scotland’s next first minister can shape foreign policy.

The party leader visited the marginal seat of East Dunbartonshire on Thursday.

Speaking during a visit to meet female entrepreneurs in Kilmarnock, the SNP leadership hopeful spoke of juggling her campaign with motherhood.

Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan are in the race to replace Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and first minister.

The SNP leadership hopeful will hand the decision on which election should be used as a ‘de facto’ referendum to SNP members.

Kate Forbes is one of three candidates vying to replace Nicola Sturgeon as first minister and SNP leader.

She said Scotland should stick to using sterling until it is economically viable to move to a new currency.

Either Ash Regan, Kate Forbes or Humza Yousaf will replace Nicola Sturgeon.

The SNP leadership hopeful is proposing an increase to carers wages to £15 per hour to make the role more attractive.

The SNP leadership hopeful was responding to comments made by her opponent Humza Yousaf regarding a shift away from the party’s ‘progressive agenda’.

The Finance Secretary officially launched her campaign at the Cairngorms Brewery in the Scottish Highlands.