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Nicola Sturgeon resigns – what next for Scottish politics?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Nicola Sturgeon's Legacy in Scotland

SMP often talk about creating a fairer Scotland and they have made changes to the taxation and benefit system. She's had some success in gradually peeling Scotland away from the Anglo-Saxon neoliberal model towards a more Nordic social demographic one. But she has sought progressive ends particularly to help vulnerable communities that she probably saw her as representing as first minister. And so my instinct is that that's largely why those things were left unreformed which leaves a big job for her successor when it comes if they choose to seize that fizzle.

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