Nicola Sturgeon will stand down as first minister of Scotland, she has announced at a press conference.
The SNP leader has had a series of political setbacks recently, including the UK supreme court defeat of her plans for a fresh independence referendum and a damaging row over a double rapist being sent to a female jail after announcing she was a trans woman.
[A] series of opinion polls have shown popular support for Sturgeon personally and for the SNP and independence has fallen in recent weeks, partly fuelled by the intense controversy over the rapist Isla Bryson.
Source: Nicola Sturgeon to resign as first minister of Scotland | Nicola Sturgeon | The Guardian
Hurray! This news deserves cheering in the street! I hope this is a message to all policy makers spearheading this anti woman, anti science movement. I don’t have to tell this woman to, “go to hell,” because I already know she will. Women are nurturing and accepting, but we’re not doormats. Thank you to those still tethered to reality, and who fought for justice. Sticking a Scorpion in with a ladybug, ain’t equality.
“energy and desire to remain first minister” must be the new “for family reasons” excuse as Ardern used almost the same words.
“Family” is obviously way too binary a word to use in these ‘modern’ times…