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
For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.
Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.
Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.
People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
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 hope it doesn't cause any added distress to Robin Cook's family.
I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
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.