[32], On 22 June 2004, John Swinney resigned as Leader of the SNP following poor results in the European Parliament election. If you are not, as First Minister, prepared to put your neck on the line on the education of our young people then what are you prepared to. [276] She has at various points commented on the behaviour or attitudes of men towards women; publicly condemning Donald Trump,[277] Tony Abbott[278] and former Labour MSP Neil Findlay. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. [231] She argued that her government had an "indisputable mandate" for a second Scottish independence referendum. MOONSHOT my derriere. Sturgeon admitted that these results were "bitterly disappointing" and acknowledged that her party's plans for a second referendum were 'undoubtedly' a factor in the election results. Sturgeon was a quiet child and has been described by her younger sister as "the sensible one" of the two. [92] On this date, Sturgeon also came out on top in a trust rating opinion poll, conducted for the SNP, which indicated that 54% of the Scottish population trusted her to "stand up for Scotland's interests". She raised these with the Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government, Leslie Evans, two months later, rather than reporting them immediately, as she should if they constitute government matters (as per the ministerial code). "[167][168][169], In 2016 the Scottish Government cut direct funding to drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes from 69.2 million to 53.8 million a drop of 22%. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can In response to the UK-wide vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, the Scottish Government, headed by Sturgeon, launched the Scotland's Place in Europe document, a white paper setting out the Scottish Government's aims and wishes of Scotland's role in Europe post-Brexit. [108], In response to the result, on 24 June 2016, Sturgeon said that Scottish Government officials would begin planning for a second independence referendum. Nicola Sturgeon has been nicknamed "the Nictator" (a portmanteau of her name "Nicola" and "dictator") as a result of her establishing a police state in Scotland. [187] Critics of the changes within the SNP had accused Sturgeon of being "out of step" on the issue, and expressed concerns that the reforms would be open to abuse and allow predatory men into women's spaces. [180] Annemarie Ward, chief executive at the FAVOR Scotland charity, said: "Nicola Sturgeon said she would make it her national mission to save lives - but were still losing more than 1000 people a year. Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. A woman is bossy and strident a nippy sweetie as they used to call me.. The victims of drugs and their families were failed. DON'T MISSHow Labour's Ian Lavery hit out at 'football hooliganism' conviction[INSIGHT]Emily Thornberry's absurd Iran letter exposed[REVEALED]Dennis Skinners damning prediction about Queen Elizabeth II revealed[VIDEO]. Please report any comments that break our rules. On Salmond's resignation, Sturgeon said: The personal debt of gratitude I owe Alex is immeasurable. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. The up side is that Peter understands what's going on and why I am late home all the time. SNP membership surged and the party achieved stunningly good results in the 2015 general election, winning 56 out of the 59 seats in Scotland. After qualifying as a solicitor, she worked for Bell & Craig, a firm of solicitors in Stirling, and later at the Drumchapel Law Centre in and a Money Advice Centre in Glasgow from 1997 until her election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Scottish hospitals will be allowed to cancel non-urgent operations and move patients into care homes to help tackle "exceptional and severe" pressures on the NHS, Nicola Sturgeon has announced . [203], On 10 September 2022, Sturgeon became the first First Minister to sign a royal proclamation, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. [312], Sturgeon won the Scottish Politician of the Year Award in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019. While it commended the authorities for preventing hospitals from becoming overwhelmed during the crisis, the watchdog also noted that recommendations from pandemic planning exercises in 2015, 2016 and 2018 had not been fully implemented. SNP convener Derek Mackay publicly congratulated Sturgeon as de facto leader in waiting, saying that she would be "a fantastic new leader" for both the SNP and for Scotland. [30] Although she failed to win the seat, she was placed first in the SNP's regional list for the Glasgow region, and was thus elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament. She was categorised in 2015 as part of the SNP's gradualist wing, which believed in achieving independence through accumulating the Scottish Parliament's powers from the UK Parliament over time. [18] Her grandmother married Robert Sturgeon, a gardener from Ayr, at St Paul's Parish Church in 1943, and they both eventually moved back to the south west of Scotland. Tories accused Nicola Sturgeon of 'weaponising vulnerable children' to further her separatist drive today. Most have been disowned or ignored by their subjects. [23][24][25], In an interview with the BBC's Woman's Hour, Sturgeon revealed that it was Margaret Thatcher who inspired her to enter politics, because, due to rising unemployment in Scotland at the time, she developed "a strong feeling that it was wrong for Scotland to be governed by a Tory government that we hadn't elected". [61][62], On 11 June, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the influenza virus a pandemic. She was unsuccessful, having been beaten by almost 15,000 votes by Labour. Just as Theresa May was preparing to trigger the formal Brexit process, Ms Sturgeon launched her bid for Indyref2. [63] Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament the containment of the virus had failed and the Scottish Government was taking steps to mitigate the spread of virus. [246][247] Some SNP members have urged Sturgeon to call an early election at Holyrood to speed up the process for a de facto referendum. "[174], The crisis has particularly impacted the homeless in Scotland; 216 homeless people died in Scotland in 2019 an increase of 11% on the previous year and of which over half (54%) were drug related. [96], Although, Salmond did not officially tender his resignation as First Minister until 18 November 2014, Sturgeon was not sworn in until two days later. 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In her second term, she oversaw more taxation powers, including the introduction of the Scottish National Investment Bank and Social Security Scotland. The down side is that you just end up talking about it all the time and you never leave it outside. She has described herself as being an austere teen who's style tended towards goth, adding that if you see pictures of me back then, you would struggle to know whether I was a boy or a girl. [208] The letter represented a significant shift in policy for the SNP, which had historically been a strong supporter of the oil and gas industry; the party's blueprint for an independent Scotland in 2013 was predicated on tax revenue earned from domestic oil production, while Sturgeon had predicted in the run up to the referendum that, "Were on the verge of another North Sea bonanza". HP10 9TY. [305][306][307] The term was used to describe Sturgeon's "fierce" attitude. Affiliated with the Scottish National Party, she took office in 2007 as Deputy First Minister of Scotland. In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, the SNP lost its overall majority, but remained the largest party with Sturgeon seeking a second term in office as a minority government. There was however significant public opposition to repeal and an unscientific postal vote on the issue organised by SNP donor Brian Souter suggested most Scots wanted to keep the clause. [185], Ahead of the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Sturgeon pledged to review and reform the way that trans people change their legal gender. 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[146] On 23 March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Sturgeon ordered Scotland into "lockdown", limiting the reasons as to why people may leave their homes in an increase attempt to limit the spread of the virus, to protect the health of the population, as well as to ease the pressure the virus places on NHS Scotland services and workforce. Scottish Independence is a misdirection play. [124] It was the best result for the Scottish Conservatives since Margaret Thatcher and the party's campaign slogan, "We said No to independence. We believe that the value of marriage should be clearly referred to in the guidelines, without denigrating other relationships or children brought up in other kinds of relationship." [116] May's comments confirmed that the PM wanted the Scottish government to be "fully engaged" in the process. [176], In August 2021 the Scottish Government announced there had been 1,339 drug deaths in the previous year a new record high. 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[273][274], Sturgeon has also campaigned on women's rights and gender equality, and is a self-described feminist; she has argued that Scotland's feminist movement is not simply symbolic, but "sends a powerful signal about equality". I AM now 80 and have been a member of the SNP for more than half of that time. In the 2016 UK referendum on European Union membership, voters in Scotland voted by 62% to remain in the European Union, despite Brexit receiving 52% of the vote across the UK. On 19 September 2014, independence was rejected in the Scottish independence referendum, with 55.3% of the voters voting no and 44.7% voting yes. Answer (1 of 3): The version I heard is this. First Minister Nicola has been known as ' Nippy Sweetie' for more than a decade after being given the nickname early on in her political career. "[114][115] Sturgeon later said that while she believed in Scottish independence, her starting point in these discussions was to protect Scotland's relationship with the EU. Ms Sturgeon declared that she had not heard of the nickname before but said that the alleged remark is "meant as a term of abuse". This is Aalto. She also served as Cabinet Secretary for Health, Infrastructure, and Parliament. [70], In 2012 she pledged to build a high-speed railway line between Glasgow and Edinburgh by 2024, cutting journey times between the two cities to under 30 minutes. In 2004, with five years in the Scottish Parliament under her belt, Ms Sturgeon ran on a joint ticket with Alex Salmond for him to be leader and her to be deputy leader. Nicola Sturgeon: 'I was bullied at school' 14 September 2018 STV Ms Sturgeon was asked questions by an audience of 100 children and young people Scotland's first minister has revealed that she. Acknowledging this, Sturgeon suggested: "That is why the SNP have urged a policy for many months that we believe can provide people with the necessary reassurance, by providing a statutory underpinning to the guidelines, and resolve this difficult debate. [134] Opposition parties criticised Sturgeon on disparity and contradictions between the narratives of Murrell and herself. Sturgeon became a high-profile figure in Scottish politics and often clashed with First Minister Jack McConnell at First Minister's Questions. [72], Salmond put Sturgeon in charge of the Scottish Government's legislative process for a referendum on Scottish Independence and she was essentially in charge of the SNP's referendum campaign. [89] During the speech launching her campaign, Sturgeon announced that she would resign as Depute Leader, triggering a concurrent depute leadership election; the MSPs Angela Constance and Keith Brown and the MP Stewart Hosie all nominated themselves to succeed Sturgeon as Depute Leader. As Nicola Sturgeon becomes Scotland's longest-serving first minister, BBC Scotland looks at how a girl from a west coast council estate rose to the nation's highest office. Create good names for games, profiles, brands or social networks. [68] In June 2012, the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 was passed after receiving support from the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Greens. The national mission is failing. Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon, 49, was born in Irvine, Scotland. [152] Over three thousand care home residents died from coronavirus[153] and Gary Smith, Scotland Secretary of the GMB, said the policy had turned "care homes into morgues". Become a patron at - http://www.guerillatvchannel.com/donate Stories Contact - guerillatvchannel@gmail.comNew Brand Channel - https://www. [237] She asked Scotland's Lord Advocate to consider referring the matter to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to rule if the Scottish Government has the power to host a referendum without the Government of the United Kingdom's approval, this request has since been granted. We have worked hard to make sure that supplies are there, weve worked hard overcoming challenges that we have faced along the way. The First Minister claimed she used to be called nippy sweetie because she tried to emulate the aggressive and adversarial approach of male politicians. The worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 began during Sturgeon's second term as First Minister. [153] When asked by the BBC if the policy had been a mistake, Sturgeon said: "Looking back on that now, with the knowledge we have now and with the benefit of hindsight, yes. [102] The party received 50% of the vote share in Scotland and replaced the Liberal Democrats as the third largest party in the British House of Commons. [50], Sturgeon served as Health Secretary in Salmond's first, and for a year, in his second cabinet. [204][205], In August 2021, Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater announced a power-sharing agreement between their parties. Her triumph has also given rise to the single unfunniest. [136] Two of the civil servants who made complaints about Salmond later said they felt they had been "dropped" by the Scottish Government after it lost the judicial review against him, adding they feared their experiences would make it less likely people would make complaints in the future. [325], It has been suggested that this article should be, Deputy First Minister of Scotland (20072014), Leadership of the Scottish National Party, Criticism of Boris Johnson administration. [321][322], Her mother Joan was the SNP Provost of North Ayrshire council, where she was councillor for the Irvine East ward from 2007 until 2016. [225][226][224] Key documentation, which might have explained why ministers signed the contracts without appropriate safeguards to protect taxpayers' money, was lost and Sturgeon later said this too was "regrettable" and that "the Government will learn lessons. "[154], In April 2020 whistle-blowers in the NHS came forward to reveal that staff were being made to reuse dirty personal protective equipment (PPE) while at work. It is absolutely crushing. Sturgeon was retained as Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing until a reshuffle one year later, when she was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities and an additional role overseeing the referendum on Scottish independence, essentially putting her in charge of the SNP's referendum campaign. 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