Kate Forbes must convert warmth into votes in the Highlands

The Gaelic speaker is liked on her home turf, but SNP members are wrestling with the same issues as others across Scotland Pamela MacKenzie presides over an enviable array of fillings at Batty’s Baps sandwich bar on Dingwall high street. “Kate Forbes has been very good for the area,” she says. “We always get forgotten in the Highlands, even in the weather reports, but she gets things done.” Winter is not yet done with the north of Scotland and the …