Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon has decided to throw in the towel. The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) announced her resignation at an impromptu press conference in the closing hours of this Wednesday in Edinburgh. According to training sources, it won’t be right away. Sturgeon, who won a landslide victory in the May 2021 regional election, will remain in office until his successor is elected. One of the most popular Scottish citizen politicians for many years, and who has led the government since November 2014, recent weeks have seen support – both within the party and among the electorate – crumble and fumble following a series of setbacks. .
The local government’s decision to sponsor the Scottish Gender Recognition Act, which made it easier for people to change their gender identity and lowered the legal age to do so to 16, angered a significant proportion of citizens and grassroots SNPs. The reaction of Rishi Sunak’s government to use its prerogative to thwart the law was a severe blow to Sturgeon, who had already fought many legal battles with London.
The case of Isla Bryson, the trans woman who served time in a women’s prison after being convicted of raping two women — before undergoing sex reassignment treatment — further clouded the debate. Sturgeon decided to return Bryson to the men’s prison, struggling to avoid the media’s nagging question of whether he considered Bryson a woman or a man. The Prime Minister has always been reluctant to comment on what she considers fraud, but criticism of her – including from her predecessor Alex Salmond – has cornered her.
The UK Supreme Court’s slap to its plans to hold a new independence referendum in 2023, denying the Autonomous Parliament’s ability to convene it, has thrown Sturgeon into trouble, who will challenge the strategy in the next general election in a referendum decided. show polls decision were rejected by a majority of Scottish voters.
Much of the popularity of pro-independence politics has to do with the continued disdain for policies enacted in London, especially when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister, and for the serious and rigorous management of the pandemic in contrast to the Downing Street scandals.
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Source: La Neta Neta
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