Nicola Sturgeon profile
Bianca Rahimi
Press TV, London
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is currently serving as the fifth First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party. She is the first woman to take on either role.
She entered into politics at the age of 16 driven by a passion for nuclear disarmament.
After being elected to the Scottish Parliament, she served successively as the SNP's shadow minister for education, health, and justice.
Scottish independence from Westminster is something she has fought long and hard for. In 2014 the Scots voted against it, but Sturgeon said it was only a matter of time.
And the time seems to have come with Westminster’s nostalgia for empire morphing into the last nail in the United Kingdom’s coffin.
In 2016 Scotland voted to remain in the European Union and ever since it’s been all systems go for Sturgeon. She’s offering the opposition Labour party, led by Jeremy Corybn, 'a progressive alliance' with the SNP. But says the party wants a second independence vote in return.
Like many other politicians her career is now being defined by how she handles Brexit. She is calling on the Scots to be ready for two referendums in 2020. One on Brexit and the other on Independence. She has described the general election on December 12th as 'the most important one Scotland has faced in our lifetimes'. But Westminster is still refusing to allow for another referendum in Scotland; citing the previous one as a one in a generation vote. Sturgeon say Boris Johnson has no right to do this.
Other noteworthy policies Sturgeon is pushing for are the scrapping of the Trident based in HMNB Clyde and lowering the voting age to 16. The Scottish National Party already has 35 out of 59 lawmakers, with some pollsters suggesting they will make further gains, positioning them as possible kingmakers.
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