Swinney, who previously served as SNP leader until 2004, said he would have 'more to say in the coming days' about whether he could return to the party's top job.
John Swinney has urged the SNP to "come together" as speculation intensifies over whether he will soon launch a leadership bid to replace Humza Yousaf .
Nominations to become party leader have opened and party members have until Monday to put their names forward. "These are all the issues I'm giving consideration to, and I'll have more to say in the coming days." Writing in the Record, former SNP minister Alex Neil said Swinney was "too closely associated with the Sturgeon era and the mess which poor Humza inherited".
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