BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon to resign as First Minister of Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon is about to resign as First Minister of Scotland as we speak, based on studies. Having served as chief of the SNP and Scotland’s First Minister since 2014, she is about to make the announcement at a press convention at 11am as we speak.

Sturgeon is the longest serving First Minister in Scotland’s historical past with nearly a decade within the position. She led the social gathering by way of continued electoral success, together with the social gathering’s finest ever normal election outcome by which the SNP gained 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland in 2015.

In latest months, Sturgeon has confronted important political setbacks, following the Supreme Court docket ruling that the Scottish Parliament doesn’t have the ability to carry an independence referendum with out the assist of Westminster and the Conservative run UK authorities making an unprecedented intervention to overturn the Scottish Parliament’s reforms to the method of gender recognition.

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Chris Jarvis is head of technique and improvement at Left Foot Ahead

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