'Nicola Sturgeon will prevail as her iron grip and vitality were top assets'
26 March 2023 , 17:52
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My first thought after meeting Nicola Sturgeon on the campaign trail in Glasgow many years ago was: “I didn’t know they still made pocket battleships on the Clyde.”
This diminutive young woman, a “nippy sweetie” as they say in those parts, bursting with political vitality, was clearly going places.
But not to Westminster, the centre of the universe for most ambitious wannabe-MPs, but Edinburgh, as part of a nationalist government for Scotland.
I have watched her career over the decades since with a mixture of admiration and dismay. Admiration, because she was so successful in her single-minded pursuit of her objectives, and dismay because she almost killed off the Labour Party in Scotland.
(PA)
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