Senior Scottish Nationalist Party figures have warned the party will lose the next Holyrood election without an urgent rethink of purpose and policy. Members within the party have expressed doubt that the party’s leader, John Swinney, is strong enough to direct the scale of change required. It comes after the party was reduced from 48 MPs in 2019 to nine as Labour crushed the party across the country in the General Election. Many predict the SNP, which has enjoyed massive electoral success over the past decade, faces a potential catastrophe in the Scottish parliament elections in 2026. Stewart…