KATE Forbes has backed First Minister John Swinney to improve the SNP's "integrity" among voters following a disastrous General Election.
The Nationalists lost dozens of seats to Scottish Labour at the poll on July 4 to end up with just nine MPs.
Forbes, who was appointed Deputy First Minister by Swinney in May, said the party had to listen to the electorate and not enter a period of "navel gazing".
"They want to see change," she insisted on BBC Radio 4.
"This was a change election and that's what we're going to do."
It comes after one SNP veteran called for Swinney to quit as party leader to allow a new generation to take charge.
Alex Neil, who served as a Scottish Government minister under both Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, said that Swinney should make way for Forbes or Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
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