Sturgeon guided country through Covid-19 pandemic and led SNP to repeated election victories at UK, national and local level
‘Nicola Sturgeon was a friend of Ireland’: Departing Scottish first minister praised by Irish politicians
“As a colleague, as a friend, we’ve had a very close working relationship over many, many years, we have many shared interests and I have no doubt in my mind that she will always be regarded as one of the most formidable leaders of our generation,” she said. The first minister has suffered a series of political challenges in recent months as her Government sought to push through gender reforms, only for them to be blocked by Westminster.
Last year, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold another independence referendum, as Westminster blocked the move. She added: “The longer any leader is in office, the more opinions about them become fixed and very hard to change, and that matters.
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