Nicola Sturgeon resignation: Where it went wrong for the First Minister
dailyrecord.co.ukAfter years of popularity and electoral success, several problems emerged in the last few months of Nicola Sturgeon's tenure as First Minister.The SNP has been almost untouchable throughout Sturgeon’s reign - emerging as the largest party in eight different elections under her leadership.
Less than a year after she became First Minister, the Nationalists achieved a landslide result in Scotland at the 2015 General Election, picking up 56 of the 59 seats.
Although they lost some seats in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, 2017 general election and 2017 council elections, they remained the biggest party by some distance.The SNP would go on to gain seats in the 2019 European elections, 2019 general election, 2021 Scottish election and 2022 council elections.And so much of their success was down to Sturgeon.
Her communication skills during the covid pandemic won praise.But Sturgeon’s plan for independence hasn’t gone smoothly. She suffered the knockback of the Supreme Court ruling and faced criticism for her plan to use the next general election as a de facto independence referendum.It has divided opinion in the party so much that the SNP are holding a special conference next month to hammer out their strategy.The gender recognition reform has not been great for her either.
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