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Nicola Sturgeon resigns – what next for Scottish politics?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Why Sturgeon Decided to Go When She Did

There's a lot going on there isn't there and it's really interesting because the question is why she decided to go when she did. A lot of the chat in Westminster Freddie you can talk a bit about this has been that it's an indication of Rishi Sunak's decision to block that gender recognition bill which was seen at the time as a risk. The government at the time were actually very careful to not try and frame the issue as a culture war. She took that decision I think in part because she could foresee the track she was going down and foresee where her polling were going to end up. And also thinking about the timings with the next general election coming up often you

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