Nicola Sturgeon is expected to quit as First Minister of Scotland at a press conference later this morning. She has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks over the case of convicted rapist Isla Bryson, but also over her government’s handling of the NHS crisis and striking workers.
This is an unsurprising surprise: Sturgeon had not seemed confident that she would be the SNP leader by the time the next election – or de facto independence referendum as she wanted it to be. The way the Bryson case had diverted attention from the independence cause had, for the first time, left the First Minister politically weak.
This is an unsurprising surprise
As Iain Macwhirter presciently reported this morning, it was looking like game over for Sturgeon, not least because polling now showed Scottish voters wanted her to step down immediately.
The Bryson case was the first time the SNP had ended up having a serious fight on anything other than independence.
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