Sturgeon: I’m not the ‘Liz Truss of the SNP’

She’s back! It wouldn’t be a proper SNP jamboree without an appearance from the dear Leader, the self-identifying Chief Mammy of nationalist fervour, Nicola Sturgeon. As hard as she tried to claim her surprise visit to Aberdeen was not overshadowing her successor’s first party conference, Mr S wasn’t convinced that even she believed that…

With her entrance to the annual conference given a hero’s welcome, Sturgeon was swarmed by adoring activists as she crowed to journalists about her ‘fair amount of electoral success’. Asked about her successor, she declared to the assembled press pack: ‘I think Humza is doing a fantastic job as leader of the party and as First Minister, and I don’t think there is any doubt from what I’ve seen about who is in charge of this conference.’

But in a Freudian slip, Sturgeon fell back into First Minister mode, answering a question with ‘I am the leader…’ — before hastily correcting herself.