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
Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.
Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.
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.
I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.
English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.
T he fact almost 40,000 Scots waited more than six months for treatment is an absolute disgrace, and these figures clearly expose Andy Kerr's claim that no patient waits more than six months for treatment as nothing more than a cruel deception.
I think you should always aim for more.
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
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.