Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland and flag bearer for its independence, is expected to announce her surprise resignation on Wednesday, according to British news media reports.
LONDON — Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland and flag bearer for its independence, announced her surprise resignation on Wednesday.
“I believe that part of serving well would be to know, almost instinctively, when the time is right to make way for someone else,” she said."In my head and in my heart I know that time is now.”Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, has been in office for eight years, making her the country’s longest-serving first minister, and has spent her political career pushing her party’s dream of breaking away from the United Kingdom and becoming independent.
Sturgeon has tangled over the years with a string a British prime ministers, most notably Boris Johnson, over issues of self-government. She maintains that Scots live by decisions made in faraway London by lawmakers and bureaucrats.She became first minister in November 2014, when she took over from her mentor, former leader of the SNP Alex Salmond, following the independence referendum.
The nationalists lost the referendum, which saw voters asked plainly “Should Scotland be an independent country?” The answer was 55 percent said no and 45 percent said yes. Sturgeon pressed Johnson to allow Scotland to stage another referendum, but Johnson insisted the 2014 ballot was a “Fervor for independence has remained mostly flat. Support for independence dropped in recent polling, from 53 percent to 47 percent among decided voters. Support for the SNP and Sturgeon are also down.
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