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Nicola Sturgeon resigns – what next for Scottish politics?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Will the SMP Replace Nicholas Sturgeon 2.0?

Nicholas Sturgeon's successor will represent a complete shift in the kind of leadership that the SMP has. It depends on who they select because they have options now in terms of the age of the leader and which way the leader might lean  in terms of fundamentalism versus gradualism. I don't think it's clear yet which way they're likely to go it's too early to say. There are some interesting contenders but from my perspective there needs to be a generational shift to the Benin government for the best part of 16 years. They've spent the last eight years trying desperately to have another referendum. Scottish people aren't against having a referendum but they don't want one now.

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