devolution to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government, particularly in areas such as welfare and immigration. Official SNP policy is supportive of the monarchy. Many party members are republicans but party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, believes it is a "model with many merits", although she has proposed reducing the funds spent on the royal family. Separately, the SNP has always opposed the UK's unelected upper house and would like to see both it and the House of Commons elected by a form of proportional representation. The party also supports the introduction of a codified constitution, either for an independent Scotland or the UK as a whole, going as far as producing a proposed interim constitution for Scotland during the independence referendum campaign. Fundamentalists and gradualists There have always been divisions within the party on how to achieve Scottish independence, with one wing described as 'fundamentalists' and the other 'gradualists'. The SNP leadership generally subscribes to the gradualist viewpoint, that being the idea that independence can be won by the accumulation by the Scottish Parliament of powers that the UK Parliament currently has over time. Fundamentalism stands in opposition to the so-called gradualist point of view, which believes that the SNP should emphasise independence more widely to achieve it. The argument goes that if the SNP is unprepared to argue for its central policy then it is unlikely ever to persuade the public of its worthiness. Leadership Scottish National Party leadership election Leader of the Scottish National Party Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party President of the Scottish National Party James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose and Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (joint), 1934–1936 Roland Muirhead, 1936–1950 Tom Gibson, 1950–1958 Robert McIntyre, 1958–1980 William Wolfe, 1980–1982 Donald Stewart, 1982–1987 Winnie Ewing, 1987–2005 Ian Hudghton, 2005–2020 Michael Russell, 2020–present National Secretary of the Scottish National Party John MacCormick, 1934–1942 Robert McIntyre, 1942–1947 Mary Fraser Dott, 1947–1951 Robert Curran, 1951–1954 John Smart, 1954–1963 Malcolm Shaw, 1963–1964 Gordon Wilson, 1964–1971 Muriel Gibson, 1971–1972 Rosemary Hall, 1972–1975 Muriel Gibson, 1975–1977 Chrissie MacWhirter, 1977–1979 Iain Murray, 1979–1981 Neil MacCallum, 1981–1986 John Swinney, 1986–1992 Alasdair Morgan, 1992–1997 Stewart Hosie, 1999–2003 Alasdair Allan, 2003–2006 Duncan Ross, 2006–2009 William Henderson, 2009–2012 Patrick Grady, 2012–2016 Angus MacLeod, 2016–2020 Stewart Stevenson, 2020–2021 Lorna Finn, 2021-present Leader of the parliamentary party, Scottish Parliament Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan), 1999–2000 John Swinney (North Tayside), 2000–2004 Nicola Sturgeon (Glasgow), 2004–2007 Alex Salmond (Aberdeenshire East),