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Joanna Cherry will not run for Holyrood and will therefore not have a run at being Sturgeon's successor, thanks to an NEC rule change designed to achieve precisely that outcome. Huge moment for the SNP. Big question now is what the Cherry/Salmond/Wings grouping does.
To recap, for those who have not been following this story for the last 18 months, the oft-denied but never in doubt SNP civil war is between the indy gradualists under Sturgeon and the indy fundamentalists whose true leader is Salmond but for whom Cherry was the acceptable face.
A choice was made to use GRA reform as a wedge issue, so Cherry, McAlpine et al have enthusiastically led opposition to those plans, and you can pretty much be certain that any anti-trans SNP MP or MSP is in the Cherry/Salmond/Wings camp, with pro-trans voices being for Sturgeon.
The Salmond court case also exposed fault lines, as Cherry's (publicly funded) staff were seen escorting him to court and his strongest supporters were those who want to see Sturgeon deposed and replaced with a more fundamentalist leader. It's Salmond they really want, of course.
It's notable that the three non-SNP alternative pro-independence parties all have clear anti-GRA-reform policy too, and it must now be an open question as to whether some of the key SNP or former SNP players now jump ship to one of these new entities. It has to be a possibility.
