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
People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.
It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
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.
Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.
My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy.
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 are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.
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.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.