Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon PCis a Scottish politician who is the fifth and current First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, in office since 2014. She is the first woman to hold either position. Sturgeon has been a member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region from 1999 to 2007, and as the member for Glasgow Southside since 2007...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1970
CityIrvine, Scotland
I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.
The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
I hope it doesn't cause any added distress to Robin Cook's family.
I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.
There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.