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2009 swine flu pandemic </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2009_swine_flu_pandemic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Minimum_pricing_unit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Minimum_pricing_unit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.3 Minimum pricing unit </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Minimum_pricing_unit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Infrastructure_Secretary_(2012–2014)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Infrastructure_Secretary_(2012–2014)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Infrastructure Secretary (2012–2014) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Infrastructure_Secretary_(2012–2014)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2014_Scottish_independence_referendum"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 2014 Scottish independence referendum </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2014_Scottish_independence_referendum-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leadership_of_the_Scottish_National_Party" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leadership_of_the_Scottish_National_Party"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Leadership of the Scottish National Party </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Leadership_of_the_Scottish_National_Party-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2014–2023)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2014–2023)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 First Minister of Scotland (2014–2023) </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2014–2023)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle First Minister of Scotland (2014–2023) subsection </button> <ul id="toc-First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2014–2023)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-First_term_(2014–2016)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_term_(2014–2016)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 First term (2014–2016) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_term_(2014–2016)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-First_cabinet" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_cabinet"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1.1 First cabinet </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_cabinet-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2015_Westminster_landslide" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2015_Westminster_landslide"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1.2 2015 Westminster landslide </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2015_Westminster_landslide-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2016_Scottish_Parliament_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2016_Scottish_Parliament_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1.3 2016 Scottish Parliament election </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2016_Scottish_Parliament_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_term_(2016–2021)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_term_(2016–2021)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Second term (2016–2021) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_term_(2016–2021)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2016_EU_membership_referendum" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2016_EU_membership_referendum"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.1 2016 EU membership referendum </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2016_EU_membership_referendum-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Future_referendum_on_independence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Future_referendum_on_independence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.2 Future referendum on independence </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Future_referendum_on_independence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2017_UK_general_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2017_UK_general_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.3 2017 UK general election </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2017_UK_general_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_case" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_case"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.4 Alex Salmond sexual harassment case </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_case-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2019_UK_general_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2019_UK_general_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.5 2019 UK general election </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2019_UK_general_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-COVID-19_pandemic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#COVID-19_pandemic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.6 COVID-19 pandemic </div> </a> <ul id="toc-COVID-19_pandemic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third_term_(2021–23)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Third_term_(2021–23)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Third term (2021–23) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Third_term_(2021–23)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Power-sharing_agreement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Power-sharing_agreement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.1 Power-sharing agreement </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Power-sharing_agreement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate_crisis" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate_crisis"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.2 Climate crisis </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate_crisis-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Caledonian_MacBrayne_ferry_delay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Caledonian_MacBrayne_ferry_delay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.3 Caledonian MacBrayne ferry delay </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Caledonian_MacBrayne_ferry_delay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_independence_referendum_proposals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_independence_referendum_proposals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.4 Second independence referendum proposals </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_independence_referendum_proposals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gender_recognition_reforms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gender_recognition_reforms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.5 Gender recognition reforms </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gender_recognition_reforms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Resignation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Resignation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3.6 Resignation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Resignation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Domestic_issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domestic_issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Domestic issues </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Domestic_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Drugs_deaths_crisis" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Drugs_deaths_crisis"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.1 Drugs deaths crisis </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Drugs_deaths_crisis-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education_performance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education_performance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4.2 Education performance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education_performance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 International relations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-European_Union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#European_Union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5.1 European Union </div> 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id="toc-Political_positions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Constitutional_affairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Constitutional_affairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Constitutional affairs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Constitutional_affairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Scottish_independence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scottish_independence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.1 Scottish independence </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scottish_independence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Monarch" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Monarch"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.2 Monarch </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Monarch-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economic_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economic_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Economic policy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economic_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Social_issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Social_issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Social issues </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Social_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Women's_rights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Women's_rights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3.1 Women's rights </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Women's_rights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transgender_rights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transgender_rights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3.2 Transgender rights </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transgender_rights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nuclear_weapons" 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id="toc-Death_of_Alex_Salmond-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public_image_and_legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_image_and_legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Public image and legacy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_image_and_legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_acknowledgements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_acknowledgements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Awards and acknowledgements </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_acknowledgements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Personal life </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" 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data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Stercen" title="Nikola Stercen – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Nikola Stercen" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8" title="নিকোলা স্টারজন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="নিকোলা স্টারজন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Никола Стърджън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Никола Стърджън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeonov%C3%A1" title="Nicola Sturgeonová – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nicola Sturgeonová" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B1_%CE%A3%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD" title="Νίκολα Στέρτζιον – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νίκολα Στέρτζιον" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Emiliàn e rumagnòl</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%86" title="نیکولا استورجن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیکولا استورجن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%BB%AC%EB%9D%BC_%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0%EC%A0%84" title="니컬라 스터전 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="니컬라 스터전" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%86%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A1_%D5%8D%D5%A9%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A5%D5%B6" title="Նիկոլա Սթերջեն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Նիկոլա Սթերջեն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%92%27%D7%9F" title="ניקולה סטרג'ן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ניקולה סטרג'ן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ნიკოლა სტარჯონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნიკოლა სტარჯონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%86" title="نيكولا ستارجن – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="نيكولا ستارجن" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3" title="ニコラ・スタージョン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ニコラ・スタージョン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Стерджен, Никола – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Стерджен, Никола" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D" title="நிக்கோலா ஸ்டர்ஜியன் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="நிக்கோலா ஸ்டர்ஜியன்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="నికోలా స్టర్జన్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="నికోలా స్టర్జన్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2_%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99" title="นิโคลา สเตอร์เจียน – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="นิโคลา สเตอร์เจียน" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Nicola Sturgeon – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Nicola Sturgeon" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Нікола Стерджен – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Нікола Стерджен" 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nicol_Stephen" title="Nicol Stephen">Nicol Stephen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">John Swinney</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#Depute_Leader_of_the_Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 3 September 2004 – 14 November 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a 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href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 3 May 2007</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jackson_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon Jackson (politician)">Gordon Jackson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Majority</th><td class="infobox-data">9,593 (38.5%)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the Scottish Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_(Scottish_Parliament_electoral_region)" title="Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)">Glasgow</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(1 of 7 Regional MSPs)</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 6 May 1999 – 3 May 2007 </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon</div> (1970-07-19) 19 July 1970 (age 54) <a href="/wiki/Irvine,_North_Ayrshire" title="Irvine, North Ayrshire">Irvine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ayrshire" title="Ayrshire">Ayrshire</a>, 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constituency)">MSP for Glasgow Southside</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">Deputy First Minister of Scotland</a> (2004–2014)</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Alex_Salmond" title="Premiership of Alex Salmond">Salmond Ministry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2004_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2004 Scottish National Party leadership election">2004 deputy leadership election</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tobacco_and_Primary_Medical_Services_(Scotland)_Act_2010" title="Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010">Tobacco sale restrictions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcohol_(Minimum_Pricing)_(Scotland)_Act_2012" title="Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012">Minimum unit pricing</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Act_2013" title="Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013">Independence referendum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_(Franchise)_Act_2013" title="Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Act 2013">Votes at 16</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">2014 Scottish independence referendum</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Scottish_National_Party" title="Leader of the Scottish National Party">Leader</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> (2014–2023)</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">2014 leadership election</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister of Scotland</a> (2014–2023)</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Premiership of Nicola Sturgeon">Premiership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_Nicola_Sturgeon" title="List of international trips made by Nicola Sturgeon">International trips</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">First Ministry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_Scotland" title="Revenue Scotland">Revenue Scotland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Land_and_Buildings_Transaction_Tax" title="Land and Buildings Transaction Tax">LBTT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Landfill_Tax" title="Scottish Landfill Tax">SLfT</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Community_Empowerment_(Scotland)_Act_2015" title="Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015">Community right to buy</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sturgeon_government" title="Second Sturgeon government">Second Ministry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2016 Scottish Parliament election">2016 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">Proposed second independence referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">Brexit referendum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_referendum_on_the_Brexit_withdrawal_agreement" title="Proposed referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement">People's Vote</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Scotland" title="Social Security Scotland">Social Security Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Investment_Bank_Act_2020" title="Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020">Scottish National Investment Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_scandal" title="Alex Salmond sexual harassment scandal">Alex Salmond scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">Third Ministry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2021 Scottish Parliament election">2021 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bute_House_Agreement" title="Bute House Agreement">Bute House Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference">COP26</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferry_fiasco" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferry fiasco">Ferry fiasco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Branchform" title="Operation Branchform">Operation Branchform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%93present_United_Kingdom_cost-of-living_crisis" title="2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis">Cost of living crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Scotland_bin_strikes" title="2022 Scotland bin strikes">Bin worker strikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_United_Kingdom_railway_strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="2022–2023 United Kingdom railway strikes">ScotRail strikes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">2023 proposed referendum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum#2022_Supreme_Court_referral" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">2022 Supreme Court referral</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Reform_(Scotland)_Bill" title="Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill">Gender reform bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Nicola_Sturgeon#Resignation" title="Premiership of Nicola Sturgeon">Resignation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">2023 leadership election</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Scotland#UK_Parliament" title="Elections in Scotland">UK General elections</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2015 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2017 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2019 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2019</a></li></ul> <hr /> <figure class="mw-halign-center skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:20200228180454!Signature_of_Nicola_Sturgeon_-_Edited.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/20200228180454%21Signature_of_Nicola_Sturgeon_-_Edited.png/150px-20200228180454%21Signature_of_Nicola_Sturgeon_-_Edited.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/20200228180454%21Signature_of_Nicola_Sturgeon_-_Edited.png/225px-20200228180454%21Signature_of_Nicola_Sturgeon_-_Edited.png 1.5x, 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title="Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)">Glasgow electoral region</a>, and as the member for <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Southside" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow Southside">Glasgow Southside</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Govan_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Govan (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Govan</a>) from 2007. Born in <a href="/wiki/Ayrshire" title="Ayrshire">Ayrshire</a>, Sturgeon is a law graduate of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>. She worked as a solicitor in Glasgow before her election to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> in <a href="/wiki/1999_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="1999 Scottish Parliament election">1999</a>. She served successively as the SNP's shadow minister for education, health, and justice. Sturgeon entered the <a href="/wiki/2004_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2004 Scottish National Party leadership election">leadership of the SNP</a> but later withdrew from the contest in favour of <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>, standing instead as <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/depute" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:depute">depute</a> leader on a joint ticket with Salmond. Both were subsequently elected; as Salmond was still an MP, Sturgeon led the SNP in the Scottish Parliament as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Scotland)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Scotland)">Leader of the Opposition</a> from 2004 to 2007. The SNP emerged as the largest party following the <a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2007 Scottish Parliament election">2007 election</a> and Salmond headed the <a href="/wiki/First_Salmond_government" title="First Salmond government">first SNP minority government</a>, with Sturgeon as his <a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">deputy</a>. From 2007 to 2012, she served as <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Health_and_Wellbeing" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing">health secretary</a>, overseeing the <a href="/wiki/Prescription_charges" title="Prescription charges">scrapping of prescription charges</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic" title="2009 swine flu pandemic">2009 swine flu pandemic</a>. Following the SNP's landslide majority in 2011, she was appointed <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Infrastructure,_Capital_Investment_and_Cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities">Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities</a>, which saw her in charge of the legislative process for the <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">2014 Scottish independence referendum</a>. The defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Yes_Scotland" title="Yes Scotland">Yes Scotland</a> campaign resulted in Salmond's resignation as SNP leader. Sturgeon was <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">elected unopposed as SNP leader in November 2014</a> and was subsequently appointed as first minister, becoming the first woman to hold either position.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-:62-4">[4]</a> She entered office amid a rapid surge in membership of the SNP, which was reflected in the party's performance in the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>, winning 56 of the 59 Scottish seats and replacing the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> as the third-largest party in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a>. The SNP continued to enjoy electoral successes throughout Sturgeon's nine years in office, but lost 21 seats in the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>. Despite losing her majority, Sturgeon secured a second term in office in 2016, forming a <a href="/wiki/Minority_government" title="Minority government">minority government</a>. Sturgeon led the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_government_response_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish government response to the COVID-19 pandemic">Scottish Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic</a>, implementing a series of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns" title="COVID-19 lockdowns">restrictions on social gatherings</a> and the rollout of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine" title="COVID-19 vaccine">vaccine programme</a>. A seat short of a majority in <a href="/wiki/2021_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2021 Scottish Parliament election">2021</a>, Sturgeon became the only first minister to <a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">serve a third term</a>, and she subsequently entered <a href="/wiki/Bute_House_Agreement" title="Bute House Agreement">a power-sharing agreement</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Scottish Greens</a>. The calls from Sturgeon's government and the wider independence movement for a second referendum were unsuccessful, as successive <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> prime ministers refused to grant a <a href="/wiki/Section_30" class="mw-redirect" title="Section 30">Section 30 order</a>. From 2022, Sturgeon received heavier criticism for her positions on <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Gender_recognition_reforms">gender reforms</a>. On 15 February 2023, Sturgeon resigned the leadership of the SNP claiming <a href="/wiki/Occupational_burnout" title="Occupational burnout">occupational burnout</a>; she was <a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">succeeded</a> by her health secretary, <a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a>, the following month. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> was born in <a href="/wiki/Ayrshire_Central_Hospital" title="Ayrshire Central Hospital">Ayrshire Central Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Irvine,_North_Ayrshire" title="Irvine, North Ayrshire">Irvine</a> on 19 July 1970.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> She is the eldest of two daughters born to <a href="/wiki/Joan_Sturgeon" title="Joan Sturgeon">Joan Kerr Sturgeon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Birth_name" title="Birth name">née</a> Ferguson, born 23 October 1952<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a>), a <a href="/wiki/Registered_Dental_Nurse" class="mw-redirect" title="Registered Dental Nurse">dental nurse</a>, and Robin Sturgeon (born 28 September 1948<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>), an electrician.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> Her younger sister, Gillian Sturgeon, is an <a href="/wiki/NHS_Scotland" title="NHS Scotland">NHS worker</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Her family has some roots in <a href="/wiki/North_East_England" title="North East England">North East England</a>; her paternal grandmother, Margaret Sturgeon (née Mill), was from <a href="/wiki/Ryhope" title="Ryhope">Ryhope</a> in what is now the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Sunderland" title="City of Sunderland">City of Sunderland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Her grandmother married Robert Sturgeon, a gardener from <a href="/wiki/Ayr" title="Ayr">Ayr</a>, at St Paul's Parish Church in 1943, and they both eventually moved back to the south west of Scotland. Sturgeon grew up in <a href="/wiki/Prestwick" title="Prestwick">Prestwick</a> and in the village of <a href="/wiki/Dreghorn" title="Dreghorn">Dreghorn</a>, in a terraced <a href="/wiki/Council_house" title="Council house">council house</a>, which her parents bought through the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_Buy_Scheme" class="mw-redirect" title="Right to Buy Scheme">right-to-buy scheme</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Sturgeon was a quiet child and has been described by her younger sister as "the sensible one" of the two.<a href="#cite_note-Gentlewoman-14">[14]</a> Sturgeon was shy and has said that she "much preferred to sit with my head in a book than talking to people".<a href="#cite_note-Gentlewoman-14">[14]</a> She developed a passion for books and reading which continued into adult life. She has described herself as being an "austere" teen whose style tended towards <a href="/wiki/Goth_subculture" title="Goth subculture">goth</a>, adding that "if you see pictures of me back then, you would struggle to know whether I was a boy or a girl".<a href="#cite_note-Gentlewoman-14">[14]</a> Sturgeon was a fan of <a href="/wiki/Wham!" title="Wham!">Wham!</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duran_Duran" title="Duran Duran">Duran Duran</a>, and enjoyed spending Saturday nights at Frosty's Ice Disco in <a href="/wiki/Irvine,_North_Ayrshire" title="Irvine, North Ayrshire">Irvine</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Sturgeon attended <a href="/wiki/Dreghorn#Employment" title="Dreghorn">Dreghorn Primary School</a> from 1975 to 1982 and <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Academy,_Dreghorn" title="Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn">Greenwood Academy</a> from 1982 to 1988.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] She later studied <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow_School_of_Law" title="University of Glasgow School of Law">University of Glasgow School of Law</a>, graduating with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">Bachelor of Laws</a> (Hons) in 1992 and a <a href="/wiki/Diploma_in_Legal_Practice" class="mw-redirect" title="Diploma in Legal Practice">Diploma in Legal Practice</a> the following year.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] During her time at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a> she was active as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Scottish_Nationalist_Association" title="Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association">Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Students%27_Representative_Council" title="Glasgow University Students' Representative Council">Glasgow University Students' Representative Council</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_career">Legal career</h2></div> Following her graduation, Sturgeon completed her legal traineeship at <a href="/wiki/McClure_Naismith" title="McClure Naismith">McClure Naismith</a>, a Glasgow firm of solicitors, in 1995. After qualifying as a <a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a>, she worked for Bell & Craig, a firm of solicitors in <a href="/wiki/Stirling" title="Stirling">Stirling</a>, and later at the <a href="/wiki/Drumchapel" title="Drumchapel">Drumchapel</a> <a href="/wiki/Law_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Law Centre">Law Centre</a> and a Money Advice Centre in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> from 1997 until her election to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> in 1999.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_parliamentary_career">Early parliamentary career</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_political_years">Early political years</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg/170px-Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg/255px-Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg/340px-Nicola_Sturgeon_1999.jpg 2x" data-file-width="458" data-file-height="611" /></a><figcaption>Official parliamentary portrait, 1999</figcaption></figure> In her early teens, Sturgeon joined the <a href="/wiki/Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament" title="Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament</a> (CND) and in 1986, at the age of 16, she became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (SNP), quickly becoming the party's Youth Affairs Vice Convener and Publicity Vice Convener. She joined the SNP following an assumption by her English teacher, who was a Labour councillor, she would be a Labour supporter. In the <a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 UK General election</a>, Sturgeon got her first taste of campaigning, going door-to-door to get her local SNP candidate, <a href="/wiki/Kay_Ullrich" title="Kay Ullrich">Kay Ullrich</a>, elected to <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>. Despite Ullrich failing to win the seat, Sturgeon ploughed her political energy into the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Young Scottish Nationalists</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Young Scots for Independence</a>), joining its national executive when she was 17.<a href="#cite_note-:2-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> In an interview with the BBC's <a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Hour" title="Woman's Hour">Woman's Hour</a>, Sturgeon revealed that it was <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> who inspired her to enter politics, because, due to rising unemployment in Scotland at the time, she developed "a strong feeling that it was wrong for Scotland to be governed by a Tory government that we hadn't elected".<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Nicola Sturgeon, Sturgeon's views on <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a></cite></div></blockquote> Sturgeon became the youngest ever parliamentary candidate in Scotland in the <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 general election</a>. Aged 21, Sturgeon was selected as the SNP candidate in the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Shettleston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Shettleston</a> constituency. She was unsuccessful, having been beaten by almost 15,000 votes by Labour.<a href="#cite_note-:2-17">[17]</a> Sturgeon also stood unsuccessfully as the SNP candidate for the Irvine North <a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">ward</a> on <a href="/wiki/Cunninghame" title="Cunninghame">Cunninghame</a> District Council in May 1992, for the <a href="/wiki/Baillieston" title="Baillieston">Baillieston</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_Glasgow" title="Mount Vernon, Glasgow">Mount Vernon</a> ward on <a href="/wiki/Strathclyde_Regional_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Strathclyde Regional Council">Strathclyde Regional Council</a> in 1994, and for the <a href="/wiki/Bridgeton,_Glasgow" title="Bridgeton, Glasgow">Bridgeton</a> ward on <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_City_Council" title="Glasgow City Council">Glasgow City Council</a> in 1995.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the mid-1990s Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kennedy" title="Charles Kennedy">Charles Kennedy</a> went together on a political study visit to Australia.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a> saw Sturgeon selected to fight the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Govan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Govan</a> seat for the SNP. Boundary changes meant that the notional <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> majority in the seat had increased substantially. However, infighting between the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Sarwar_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Sarwar (politician)">Mohammed Sarwar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Invergowrie" title="Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie">Mike Watson</a>, along with an energetic local campaign,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] resulted in Glasgow Govan being the only Scottish seat to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a Labour <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide</a> nationwide. Sarwar did, however, win the seat with a majority of 2,914 votes.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> Shortly after this, Sturgeon was appointed as the SNP's spokesperson for energy and education matters.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SNP_in_opposition">SNP in opposition</h3></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_2003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Nicola_Sturgeon_2003.jpg/178px-Nicola_Sturgeon_2003.jpg" decoding="async" width="178" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Nicola_Sturgeon_2003.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon speaking to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a>, 2003</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon stood for election to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="1999 Scottish Parliament election">first Scottish Parliament election</a> in 1999 as the SNP candidate for <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Govan_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Govan (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Govan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Although she failed to win the seat, she was placed first in the SNP's regional list for the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_(Scottish_Parliament_electoral_region)" title="Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)">Glasgow region</a>, and was thus elected as a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Member of the Scottish Parliament">Member of the Scottish Parliament</a>. The SNP emerged as the second largest party and sat in <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Shadow_Cabinets_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Opposition Shadow Cabinets of the Scottish Parliament">opposition</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Dewar_government" title="Dewar government">Labour-Lib Dem coalition</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>'s shadow cabinet, she served as <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Education_and_Lifelong_Learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning">Shadow Minister for Children and Education</a> from 1999 to 2000. As Shadow Education minister, Sturgeon backed Labour's efforts to repeal <a href="/wiki/Section_28" title="Section 28">Section 28</a> – a Westminster law that banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools. There was, however, significant public <a href="/wiki/Keep_the_Clause_campaign" title="Keep the Clause campaign">opposition to repeal</a> and an unscientific postal vote on the issue – organised by SNP donor <a href="/wiki/Brian_Souter" title="Brian Souter">Brian Souter</a> – suggested most Scots wanted to keep the clause. Acknowledging this, Sturgeon suggested: "That is why the SNP have urged a policy for many months that we believe can provide people with the necessary reassurance, by providing a statutory underpinning to the guidelines, and resolve this difficult debate. We believe that the value of marriage should be clearly referred to in the guidelines, without denigrating other relationships or children brought up in other kinds of relationship." The compromise had the support of Souter but an amendment to that effect was voted down by MSPs who expressed concerns it would stigmatise children from single parent and unmarried families.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Sturgeon served as <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Health_and_Wellbeing" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing">Shadow Minister for Health and Community Care</a> from 2000 to 2003, and <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Justice">Shadow Minister for Justice</a> from 2003 to 2004. She also served as a member of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee and the Health and Community Care Committee.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2004_SNP_leadership_election">2004 SNP leadership election</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2004_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2004 Scottish National Party leadership election">2004 Scottish National Party leadership election</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png/170px-Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png/255px-Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png/340px-Alex_Salmond_and_Nicola_Sturgeon_official_portrait.png 2x" data-file-width="616" data-file-height="733" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a> in 2007</figcaption></figure> On 22 June 2004, John Swinney resigned as Leader of the SNP following poor results in the <a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">European Parliament election</a>. His then-depute, <a href="/wiki/Roseanna_Cunningham" title="Roseanna Cunningham">Roseanna Cunningham</a>, immediately stood for the leadership. The previous leader, Alex Salmond, at the time refused to stand.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> On 24 June 2004, Sturgeon also entered the leadership contest, with <a href="/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill" title="Kenny MacAskill">Kenny MacAskill</a> as her running mate.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> The political columnist <a href="/wiki/Iain_Macwhirter" title="Iain Macwhirter">Iain Macwhirter</a> declared that while she "didn't inspire great warmth", she was "quick on her feet, lacks any ideological baggage and has real determination – unlike... Roseanna Cunningham".<a href="#cite_note-triumph-29">[29]</a> However, once Cunningham emerged as the favourite to win,<a href="#cite_note-triumph-29">[29]</a> Salmond entered the contest and Sturgeon subsequently withdrew from the contest and declared her support for Salmond, standing instead as his running mate for the depute leadership. It was reported that Salmond had privately supported Sturgeon in her leadership bid, but decided to run for the position himself as it became apparent she was unlikely to beat Cunningham.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> The majority of the SNP hierarchy lent their support to the Salmond–Sturgeon bid for the leadership, although MSP <a href="/wiki/Alex_Neil_(politician)" title="Alex Neil (politician)">Alex Neil</a> backed Salmond as leader, but refused to endorse Sturgeon as depute.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> On 3 September 2004, the leadership contest resulted in Salmond and Sturgeon elected as Leader and Depute Leader respectively.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> As Salmond was still an MP in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a>, Sturgeon led the SNP at the Scottish Parliament until the <a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2007 Scottish Parliament election">2007 election</a>, when Salmond was elected as an MSP.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leader_of_the_Opposition;_2004–2007">Leader of the Opposition; 2004–2007</h3></div> As leader of the SNP in the Scottish Parliament, she served as the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_in_Holyrood" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Opposition in Holyrood">Leader of the Opposition in Holyrood</a>. Sturgeon became a high-profile figure in Scottish politics and often clashed with <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Jack_McConnell" title="Jack McConnell">Jack McConnell</a> at <a href="/wiki/First_Minister%27s_Questions_(Scottish_Parliament)" title="First Minister's Questions (Scottish Parliament)">First Minister's Questions</a>. This included rows over the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons'</a> decision to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system, and the SNP's plans to replace <a href="/wiki/Council_tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Council tax">council tax</a> in Scotland with a <a href="/wiki/Local_income_tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Local income tax">local income tax</a>.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Sturgeon quickly grew a reputation in Holyrood as opposition leader, becoming known as "nippy sweetie" – Scottish slang for the "sharp-tongued and strong-minded".<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2007–2014)">Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2007–2014)</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon%27s_tenure_as_Deputy_First_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicola Sturgeon's tenure as Deputy First Minister">Nicola Sturgeon's tenure as Deputy First Minister</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Alex_Salmond" title="Premiership of Alex Salmond">Premiership of Alex Salmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_Salmond_government" title="First Salmond government">First Salmond government</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Second_Salmond_government" title="Second Salmond government">Second Salmond government</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House,_June_2007_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg/220px-Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg/330px-Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg/440px-Scottish_Cabinet_at_Bute_House%2C_June_2007_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2712" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon served as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">Deputy First Minister</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salmond_government_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Salmond government (disambiguation)">Alex Salmond's administrations</a>. </figcaption></figure>In the <a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2007 Scottish Parliament election">2007 Scottish Parliament election</a>, Sturgeon defeated <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jackson_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon Jackson (politician)">Gordon Jackson</a> QC<a href="#cite_note-36">[a]</a> with a 4.7% swing to the SNP in the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Govan_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Govan (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Govan constituency</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> This was one of many swings to the SNP, as the party emerged as the largest party, winning one seat more than the governing <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Scottish Labour Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> Although the SNP was recognised as the winners of the election, it failed to obtain a majority and Labour was not willing to allow the SNP to enter government.<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> Sturgeon led coalition negotiation talks between the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Scottish Liberal Democrats</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Scottish Greens</a>, but these talks failed to reach an agreement, with the Lib Dems backing out and the Greens instead supporting a '<a href="/wiki/Confidence_and_supply" title="Confidence and supply">confidence and supply</a>' agreement.<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a> Ultimately, Salmond formed a <a href="/wiki/First_Salmond_government" title="First Salmond government">minority government</a> and he was appointed <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister of Scotland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> He appointed Sturgeon as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">Deputy First Minister</a> and tasked her with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish cabinet">Cabinet position</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Health_and_Wellbeing" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing">Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_Secretary_(2007–2012)">Health Secretary (2007–2012)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon,_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg/220px-Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg/330px-Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg/440px-Nicola_Sturgeon%2C_DFM_in_Fort_William.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2387" data-file-height="2598" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">Deputy First Minister</a> speaking at <a href="/wiki/Fort_William,_Highland" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort William, Highland">Fort William</a>, 2011</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon served as <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Health_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Health Secretary">Health Secretary</a> in <a href="/wiki/First_Salmond_government" title="First Salmond government">Salmond's first</a>, and for a year, in <a href="/wiki/Second_Salmond_government" title="Second Salmond government">his second cabinet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a> She was supported in her role as Health Secretary by <a href="/wiki/Shona_Robison" title="Shona Robison">Shona Robison</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Public_Health_and_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Public Health and Sport">Minister for Public Health and Sport</a>, and by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Neil_(politician)" title="Alex Neil (politician)">Alex Neil</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Housing_and_Communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Housing and Communities">Minister for Housing and Communities</a>. She launched her programme for government, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2007/12/better-health-better-care-action-plan/documents/0054871-pdf/0054871-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/0054871.pdf">Better Health, Better Care: Action Plan</a>, which settled a new vision for <a href="/wiki/NHS_Scotland" title="NHS Scotland">NHS Scotland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> She reversed the decision to close casualty units at <a href="/wiki/University_Hospital_Ayr" title="University Hospital Ayr">University Hospital Ayr</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_Hospital_Monklands" title="University Hospital Monklands">University Hospital Monklands</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[47]</a> Sturgeon oversaw the scrapping of <a href="/wiki/Prescription_charges" title="Prescription charges">prescription charges</a> In Scotland, an election pledge by the SNP originally for the <a href="/wiki/Chronically_ill" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronically ill">chronically ill</a> and those with <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Health_policy">Health policy</h4></div> Sturgeon also outlined a guaranteed maximum 18-week wait for patients after they had seen their GP and vowed to do away with deferred or "hidden" waiting lists. She ordered a review of the issue of hospital car parking charges – as high as £7 in some areas – and launched an inquiry into the infection of NHS patients with Hepatitis C and HIV from tainted blood products.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2009_swine_flu_pandemic">2009 swine flu pandemic</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2009 swine flu pandemic in the United Kingdom">2009 swine flu pandemic in the United Kingdom</a></div> As Health Secretary, Sturgeon became more widely known internationally for her handling of the <a href="/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 flu pandemic">2009 flu pandemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[51]</a> On 26 April 2009, the Scottish Government confirmed that two people who had returned from Mexico had been admitted to <a href="/wiki/Monklands_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Monklands Hospital">Monklands Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a> after experiencing "mild flu-like symptoms".<a href="#cite_note-northamptonshire1-53">[52]</a> Sturgeon stated that there was "no immediate threat to public health in Scotland", but added, "monitoring of those who have been in close contact with the two people is also being carried out as an additional precaution."<a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> The following day, she confirmed that these were cases of the <a href="/wiki/Swine_influenza_A/H1N1_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="Swine influenza A/H1N1 virus">swine influenza A (H1N1) virus</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_confirmed_cases-55">[54]</a> Authorities in both Scotland and England stated that there were no plans to trace the fellow airline passengers who may have travelled alongside the couple, since the authorities do not classify them as "close contacts".<a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[56]</a> On 11 June, the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) declared the influenza virus a <a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">pandemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that containment of the virus had failed and that the Scottish Government was taking steps to mitigate the spread of the virus. "We have seen a rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases in Scotland over the past 10 days", she told Parliament. "Based on this experience, <a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_Scotland" title="Health Protection Scotland">Health Protection Scotland</a> has expressed the view that sustained community transmission appears to be taking place."<a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a> Four days later, a Scottish woman with underlying health conditions died at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Alexandra_Hospital,_Paisley" title="Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley">Royal Alexandra Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paisley,_Renfrewshire" title="Paisley, Renfrewshire">Paisley</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a> This marked the first death in Scotland and Europe.<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minimum_pricing_unit">Minimum pricing unit</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_(Minimum_Pricing)_(Scotland)_Act_2012" title="Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012">Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_in_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcohol in Scotland">Alcohol in Scotland</a></div> To tackle <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_in_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcohol in Scotland">Scotland's poor relationship with alcohol</a>, Sturgeon passed legislation to increase the price of <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage">alcohol</a> per <a href="/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol" class="mw-redirect" title="Unit of alcohol">unit</a> to help reduce sales, in particular, for those <a href="/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">addicted</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a> In June 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_(Minimum_Pricing)_(Scotland)_Act_2012" title="Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012">Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012</a> was passed after receiving support from the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Greens. Labour refused to support the bill as they claimed it failed to tackle <a href="/wiki/Windfall_profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Windfall profit">windfall profit</a> from alcohol retailers.<a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infrastructure_Secretary_(2012–2014)">Infrastructure Secretary (2012–2014)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_(8090617573).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg/220px-Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg/330px-Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg/440px-Scottish_Government_meets_UK_Government_%288090617573%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1494" data-file-height="964" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon with <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Moore_(Scottish_politician)" title="Michael Moore (Scottish politician)">Michael Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> at <a href="/wiki/St_Andrews_House" class="mw-redirect" title="St Andrews House">St Andrews House</a> following the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Agreement_(2012)" title="Edinburgh Agreement (2012)">Edinburgh Agreement</a>, October 2012</figcaption></figure> At the <a href="/wiki/2011_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2011 Scottish Parliament election">2011 election</a>, the SNP won a large overall majority. Sturgeon was retained as Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing until a reshuffle one year later, when she was appointed as <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Infrastructure,_Capital_Investment_and_Cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities">Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital Investment and Cities</a> and an additional role overseeing the <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">referendum on</a> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a>, essentially putting her in charge of the SNP's referendum campaign.<a href="#cite_note-:3-65">[64]</a> In 2012 she pledged to build a high-speed railway line between Glasgow and Edinburgh by 2024, cutting journey times between the two cities to under 30 minutes.<a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a> Sturgeon said the Scottish Government would "not wait" for Westminster to build a high-speed line to Scotland. However, in 2016 the plan was abandoned and the Scottish Government blamed Westminster.<a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_Scottish_independence_referendum">2014 Scottish independence referendum</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">2014 Scottish independence referendum</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Agreement_(2012)" title="Edinburgh Agreement (2012)">Edinburgh Agreement (2012)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Act_2013" title="Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013">Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_(8577267846).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg/220px-Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg/330px-Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg/440px-Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill_%288577267846%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon signing the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Independence_Referendum_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Independence Referendum Bill">Scottish Independence Referendum Bill</a>, 2013</figcaption></figure> Salmond put Sturgeon in charge of the Scottish Government's legislative process for a <a href="/wiki/Referendum_on_Scottish_independence" class="mw-redirect" title="Referendum on Scottish independence">referendum on Scottish Independence</a> and she was essentially in charge of the SNP's referendum campaign.<a href="#cite_note-:3-65">[64]</a> In December 2012, Sturgeon said that she believed that independence would allow Scotland to build a stronger and more competitive country, and would change spending priorities to address "the scandal of soaring poverty in a country as rich as Scotland".<a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a> While campaigning for a Yes vote in August 2013, she told <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> that if Scots voted for the Union: "Will there be another referendum round the corner? No. We can't bind our successors, but we've made very clear our belief that constitutional referenda are once-in-a-generation events."<a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a> In November 2013, Sturgeon joined Salmond to launch <a href="/wiki/Scotland%27s_Future" title="Scotland's Future">Scotland's Future</a> – the Scottish Government's prospectus for independence.<a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a> Sturgeon was one of the white paper's most high-profile media champions and frequently debated its contents with opposition politicians and sceptical Scots. When the British Government turned down the Scottish Government's idea of a formal currency union – on the grounds that the rationale for sharing a currency with a foreign country was "not clear" – Sturgeon accused Westminster of trying to "bully Scotland" and said it would "cost their own businesses hundreds of millions in transaction costs".<a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a> During the campaign, the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> said that if Scots decided to leave the United Kingdom, it would also mean leaving the European Union. Scotland would then have to reapply for EU membership and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso predicted this would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible".<a href="#cite_note-73">[72]</a> In July 2014 Sturgeon said this would put at risk the right of EU citizens to continue living in Scotland: "There are 160,000 EU nationals from other states living in Scotland, including some in the Commonwealth Games city of Glasgow. If Scotland was outside Europe, they would lose the right to stay here."<a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a> On 19 September 2014, independence was rejected in the Scottish independence referendum, with 55.3% of the voters voting no and 44.7% voting yes.<a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> Following the defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Yes_Scotland" title="Yes Scotland">Yes Scotland</a> campaign, Salmond resigned as First Minister and Leader of the SNP. Sturgeon immediately entered the election to replace him, and received huge support from the SNP hierarchy.<a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-79">[78]</a> Sturgeon said that there would be "no greater privilege" than to lead the SNP. On Salmond's resignation, Sturgeon said: <blockquote>The personal debt of gratitude I owe Alex is immeasurable. He has been my friend, mentor and colleague for more than 20 years. Quite simply, I would not have been able to do what I have in politics without his constant advice, guidance and support through all these years. [...] I can think of no greater privilege than to seek to lead the party I joined when I was just 16. However, that decision is not for today.</blockquote> Following the referendum defeat, Sturgeon said that "further devolution is the route to independence".<a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> She also opined that Scottish independence was a matter of "when, not if".<a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leadership_of_the_Scottish_National_Party">Leadership of the Scottish National Party</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_(15865040071).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg/220px-First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg/330px-First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg/440px-First_Minister_outside_Bute_House_%2815865040071%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4736" data-file-height="3459" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon outside <a href="/wiki/Bute_House" title="Bute House">Bute House</a> in Edinburgh upon her appointment as <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister</a>, 2014</figcaption></figure> On 24 September 2014, Sturgeon officially launched her campaign bid to succeed Salmond as Leader of the Scottish National Party at the <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">November leadership election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> It quickly became apparent that no other candidate would be able to receive enough required nominations to run a credible leadership campaign.<a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a> Upon launching her campaign, Sturgeon also resigned as Depute Leader, triggering a concurrent <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">depute leadership election</a>; the MSPs <a href="/wiki/Angela_Constance" title="Angela Constance">Angela Constance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keith_Brown_(Scottish_politician)" title="Keith Brown (Scottish politician)">Keith Brown</a> and the MP <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Hosie" title="Stewart Hosie">Stewart Hosie</a> all nominated themselves to succeed Sturgeon as Depute Leader.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-85">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a> Nominations for the SNP leadership closed on 15 October, with Sturgeon confirmed as the only candidate. SNP convener <a href="/wiki/Derek_Mackay" title="Derek Mackay">Derek Mackay</a> publicly congratulated Sturgeon as de facto leader in waiting, saying that she would be "a fantastic new leader" for both the SNP and for Scotland.<a href="#cite_note-SNP_leadership_elections_close-87">[86]</a> On this date, Sturgeon also came out on top in a trust rating opinion poll, conducted for the SNP, which indicated that 54% of the Scottish population trusted her to "stand up for Scotland's interests".<a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a> At a speech in Dundee's Caird Hall on 7 November, Sturgeon pledged to be "the most accessible First Minister ever" when she took over. She also promised to hold a monthly Facebook question and answer session with members of the public, regular town hall meetings and that the Scottish Cabinet would meet outside Edinburgh once every two months.<a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a> Sturgeon was formally acclaimed as the first female Leader of the SNP on 14 November 2014 at the Autumn Conference in <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Scotland" title="Perth, Scotland">Perth</a>, with Hosie as her depute. This also made her First Minister-Designate, given the SNP's absolute majority in the Scottish Parliament.<a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a> In her first speech as leader, Sturgeon said that it was "the privilege of her life" to lead the party she joined as a teenager.<a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a> Although Salmond officially tendered his resignation as First Minister on 18 November 2014, Sturgeon was not sworn in until two days later. From 18 November until her official appointment on 20 November, she served as the acting First Minister, essentially the First Minister-elect.<a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_Minister_of_Scotland_(2014–2023)">First Minister of Scotland (2014–2023)</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Premiership of Nicola Sturgeon">Premiership of Nicola Sturgeon</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">First Sturgeon government</a>, <a href="/wiki/Second_Sturgeon_government" title="Second Sturgeon government">Second Sturgeon government</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">Third Sturgeon government</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term_(2014–2016)">First term (2014–2016)</h3></div> On 20 November 2014, Sturgeon was sworn into office at the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Session" title="Court of Session">Court of Session</a> in a ceremony presided by <a href="/wiki/Lord_Gill" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Gill">Lord Gill</a>,<a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a> after receiving the <a href="/wiki/Royal_warrant_of_appointment_(United_Kingdom)" title="Royal warrant of appointment (United Kingdom)">royal warrant of appointment</a> by Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> She became the first woman to <a href="/wiki/List_of_first_ministers_of_Scotland" title="List of first ministers of Scotland">hold office</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[96]</a> During her first <a href="/wiki/First_Minister%27s_Questions_(Scottish_Parliament)" title="First Minister's Questions (Scottish Parliament)">First Minister's Questions</a> after being sworn in, Sturgeon tried to strike a conciliatory tone, saying that she came into her new post "with an open mind and a willingness to hear proposals from all sides of the chamber."<a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_cabinet">First cabinet</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Scottish_Cabinet_(15844164455).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg/220px-The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg/330px-The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg/440px-The_Scottish_Cabinet_%2815844164455%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4508" data-file-height="3367" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon's <a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">first cabinet</a> outside <a href="/wiki/Bute_House" title="Bute House">Bute House</a>, 21 November 2014</figcaption></figure>Sturgeon began making <a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">appointments to her first cabinet</a> on 21 November 2014, beginning with the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Finance,_Employment_and_Sustainable_Growth" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth">finance secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">John Swinney</a> to become her <a href="/wiki/Deputy_First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="Deputy First Minister of Scotland">Deputy First Minister</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a> <a href="/wiki/Shona_Robison" title="Shona Robison">Shona Robison</a>, a close ally to Sturgeon, became the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Health_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Health Secretary">health secretary</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Keith_Brown_(Scottish_politician)" title="Keith Brown (Scottish politician)">Keith Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Angela_Constance" title="Angela Constance">Angela Constance</a>, who were both unsuccessful in their bids for the <a href="/wiki/Deputy_leader_of_the_SNP" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy leader of the SNP">deputy leadership of the SNP</a>, were appointed <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Infrastructure,_Investment_and_Cities" title="Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities">infrastructure secretary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Education_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Education Secretary">education secretary</a>, respectively. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Matheson_(politician)" title="Michael Matheson (politician)">Michael Matheson</a> was promoted as <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Justice_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Justice Secretary">justice secretary</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a> The departure of <a href="/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill" title="Kenny MacAskill">Kenny MacAskill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Russell_(Scottish_politician)" title="Michael Russell (Scottish politician)">Michael Russell</a> signalled a generational shift away from the "<a href="/wiki/79_Group" title="79 Group">79 group</a>". <a href="/wiki/Alex_Neil_(politician)" title="Alex Neil (politician)">Alex Neil</a>, who many speculated would be dismissed, remained in cabinet but in a "less prominent portfolio" of <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Social_Justice,_Housing_and_Local_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government">social justice, communities and pensioners' rights</a>.<a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a> <a href="/wiki/Roseanna_Cunningham" title="Roseanna Cunningham">Roseanna Cunningham</a>, who had difficult relationship with Sturgeon, was surprisingly promoted to cabinet as the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Fair_Work,_Skills_and_Training" title="Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training">fair work secretary</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fiona_Hyslop" title="Fiona Hyslop">Fiona Hyslop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lochhead" title="Richard Lochhead">Richard Lochhead</a> remained in their portfolios of <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Economy,_Fair_Work_and_Culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture">culture secretary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rural_Affairs_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Rural Affairs Secretary">rural affairs secretary</a>, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> Sturgeon's cabinet was 50/50 gender balance, with five men and five women, including herself.<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg/225px-Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg/338px-Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg/450px-Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_David_Cameron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4084" data-file-height="2718" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> at <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a>, 14 December 2015</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2015_Westminster_landslide">2015 Westminster landslide</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2015 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2015 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a></div>Sturgeon led the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> through a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide victory</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2015_UK_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 UK general election">2015 UK general election</a>, winning 56 out of 59 Scottish seats at <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, the party's best ever performance.<a href="#cite_note-104">[103]</a> The party received 50% of the vote share in Scotland and replaced the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> as the third largest party in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">British House of Commons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[104]</a> Sturgeon had stated that the party's success in the election was not a mandate for another independence referendum, but primarily for a stronger voice for Scotland in London.<a href="#cite_note-106">[105]</a> In the run-up to the elections, Sturgeon took part in several Scottish and UK-wide <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election_debates" title="2015 United Kingdom general election debates">TV election debates</a> and according to opinion polls was regarded to have had a successful performance.<a href="#cite_note-107">[106]</a> As part of the election campaign, Sturgeon indicated that the SNP would hold another independence referendum if it won the upcoming 2016 Scottish Parliament election.<a href="#cite_note-auto1-108">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-109">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2016_Scottish_Parliament_election">2016 Scottish Parliament election</h4></div> Sturgeon launched, in what she claimed, as the most "bold, ambitious and reforming" SNP manifesto for the <a href="/wiki/2016_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2016 Scottish Parliament election">2016 Scottish Parliament election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-110">[109]</a> She set out the party's plans to increase income tax by freezing tax thresholds, reversing her previous policy of cutting taxes for higher earners.<a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a> The manifesto also included a commitment to increase NHS funding by £500 million, "baby boxes" full of essentials to newborn parents, and an ambitious new target to cut emissions by 50% by 2020 as of the party's effort to tackle climate change.<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> Sturgeon also hinted if re-elected she would hold a <a href="/wiki/Second_referendum_on_Scottish_independence" class="mw-redirect" title="Second referendum on Scottish independence">second referendum on Scottish independence</a>.<a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> Despite losing her majority, Sturgeon claimed a "historic victory" after the SNP won a third consecutive term in government<a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a> and sought a second term in office as a minority government.<a href="#cite_note-115">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-results-116">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[116]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister,_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg/220px-First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg/330px-First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg/440px-First_Minister%2C_Nicola_Sturgeon_MSP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2416" data-file-height="3221" /></a><figcaption>Second term in office portrait, 2016</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term_(2016–2021)">Second term (2016–2021)</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2016_EU_membership_referendum">2016 EU membership referendum</h4></div> In 2016, the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">European Union membership referendum</a> to decide the future of the UK's European Union membership resulted in 52% of voters in the UK voting for <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a> (leaving the EU), with 48% voting to remain; all council areas in Scotland voted by a majority for the UK to remain a member of the EU. Across Scotland, 62% of voters backed the UK remaining a member of the EU, with 38% voting for the UK to leave.<a href="#cite_note-118">[117]</a> In response to the result, on 24 June 2016, Sturgeon said that <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a> officials would begin planning for a second independence referendum.<a href="#cite_note-119">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[119]</a> Sturgeon claimed that it was "clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union" and that Scotland had "spoken decisively" with a "strong, unequivocal" vote to remain in the European Union.<a href="#cite_note-ft2-121">[120]</a> Sturgeon said it was "democratically unacceptable" that Scotland could be taken out of the EU "against its will".<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a> An emergency Scottish cabinet meeting on 25 June agreed that the Scottish Government would seek to enter negotiations with the EU and its member states, to explore options to protect Scotland's place in the EU.<a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-stv250616-124">[123]</a> Sturgeon later said that while she believed in Scottish independence, her starting point in these discussions was to protect Scotland's relationship with the EU.<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Future_referendum_on_independence">Future referendum on independence</h4></div> Sturgeon confirmed in June 2016 that the Scottish government had formally agreed to draft legislation to allow a second independence referendum to take place.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a> As the constitution is a reserved matter under the <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Act_1998" title="Scotland Act 1998">Scotland Act 1998</a>, for a future referendum on Scottish independence to be legal under UK law, it would need to receive the consent of the British Parliament to take place.<a href="#cite_note-127">[126]</a> Prior to the day the Prime Minister triggered <a href="/wiki/Article_50" class="mw-redirect" title="Article 50">Article 50</a>, formally allowing the process of the United Kingdom leaving the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> voted 69 to 59 in favour of another independence referendum.<a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> By the end of that week, on 30 March 2017, Sturgeon wrote to the Prime Minister requesting a Section 30 order, formally devolving the responsibility and power to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a> to plan for and hold another referendum on Scottish independence.<a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> Previously, May and <a href="/wiki/David_Mundell" title="David Mundell">David Mundell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Scotland" title="Secretary of State for Scotland">Secretary of State for Scotland</a>, had both highlighted that as the negotiations began with the European Union on the United Kingdom's withdraw, it was important for Scotland to work with the UK Government to get the best exit deal for both the United Kingdom and Scotland, stating that "now is not the time for another referendum".<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a> Following the 2017 UK general election, Sturgeon's government postponed legislation pertaining to the proposed second referendum on Scottish independence until at least autumn 2018.<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a> Following the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, all plans for another referendum were put on hold.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2017_UK_general_election">2017 UK general election</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 United Kingdom general election</a></div><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg/241px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="241" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg/362px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg/482px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_at_Bute_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="441" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Bute_House" title="Bute House">Bute House</a> in Edinburgh, 2016</figcaption></figure>Sturgeon kicked off her election campaign pledging that a strong result for the SNP would "reinforce" her mandate for a second independence referendum.<a href="#cite_note-132">[131]</a> However, the SNP lost 21 seats in the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2017 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2017 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a> and the party's vote dropped by 13%, although they remained the biggest party in Scotland. Sturgeon admitted that these results were "bitterly disappointing" and acknowledged that her party's plans for a second referendum were 'undoubtedly' a factor in the election results.<a href="#cite_note-133">[132]</a> It was the best result for the Scottish Conservatives since Margaret Thatcher and the party's campaign slogan, "We said No to independence. We meant it", resonated in areas that had voted strongly for the Union in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-134">[133]</a> Observers also concluded that opposition to the EU's <a href="/wiki/Common_Fisheries_Policy" title="Common Fisheries Policy">Common Fisheries Policy</a> in coastal communities was a factor behind large swings to the Tories in North East seats previously held by nationalists for decades.<a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[135]</a> Several weeks later Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that she would "reset" and delay her plans for a second independence referendum; the SNP losses in that month's election had led her to conclude that many Scots "just want a break from making big political decisions".<a href="#cite_note-137">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_case">Alex Salmond sexual harassment case</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Salmond scandal">Alex Salmond scandal</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg/220px-A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg/330px-A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg/440px-A_National_Conversation_launch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3216" data-file-height="2136" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a> at the launch of <a href="/wiki/National_Conversation" title="National Conversation">National Conversation</a>, 2007</figcaption></figure> In January 2019, Sturgeon referred herself to an independent ministerial ethics body, which led to an investigation into her actions with respect to a <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond#Trial_and_acquittal_on_sexual_misconduct_allegations" title="Alex Salmond">sexual harassment case concerning allegations against Salmond</a>. This followed her admitting that she had had a secret meeting and subsequent phone call with Salmond about the Scottish government's allegations against him. She raised these with the Permanent Secretary to the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Evans" title="Leslie Evans">Leslie Evans</a>, two months later, rather than reporting them immediately, as she should have done if they constitute government matters (as per the ministerial code). Sturgeon argued that the meetings were SNP party matters, and thus not covered. The investigating panel consisted of Dame <a href="/wiki/Elish_Angiolini" title="Elish Angiolini">Elish Angiolini</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_Scotland" title="Solicitor General for Scotland">Solicitor General for Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_advocate" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord advocate">lord advocate</a>, and <a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(barrister)" title="James Hamilton (barrister)">James Hamilton</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Director_of_Public_Prosecutions_(Ireland)" title="Director of Public Prosecutions (Ireland)">director of public prosecutions</a> in the Republic of Ireland.<a href="#cite_note-139">[138]</a> On 15 January 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> agreed to hold its own inquiry into the matter, the <a href="/wiki/Committee_on_the_Scottish_Government_Handling_of_Harassment_Complaints" title="Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints">Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints</a>,<a href="#cite_note-140">[139]</a> to investigate how the Government breached its own guidelines in its original investigation into the harassment claims against Salmond, and then lost a judicial review into their actions and had to pay over £500,000 to Salmond for legal expenses.<a href="#cite_note-141">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-142">[141]</a> Sturgeon's husband, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Murrell" title="Peter Murrell">Peter Murrell</a>, was called to this inquiry to give evidence on 8 December 2020.<a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a> Opposition parties criticised Sturgeon on disparity and contradictions between the narratives of Murrell and herself.<a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> On 4 March 2021, Sturgeon answered questions over a period of eight hours from members of the committee.<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a> Two of the civil servants who made complaints about Salmond later said they felt they had been "dropped" by the Scottish Government after it lost the judicial review against him, adding they feared their experiences would make it less likely people would make complaints in the future.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_Alex-146">[145]</a> Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Jess_Phillips" title="Jess Phillips">Jess Phillips</a>, a former employee of <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Aid" title="Women's Aid">Women's Aid</a>, accused Sturgeon of being "unprofessional with those women's lives" and said there had been a "litany of failures in professionalism and decency."<a href="#cite_note-147">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2019_UK_general_election">2019 UK general election</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 United Kingdom general election</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg/230px-Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg/345px-Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg/460px-Johnson_met_with_Nicola_Sturgeon_for_Union_of_Scotland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3925" data-file-height="2617" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">UK Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>, and Sturgeon at <a href="/wiki/Bute_House" title="Bute House">Bute House</a>, 2019</figcaption></figure>Sturgeon led her party to a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide victory</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="2019 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">2019 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a>. The SNP won 48 seats, and came second place in the 11 others; their 45% of the vote yielded 80% of the seats in Scotland.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-148">[147]</a> Among the election casualties was <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Jo_Swinson" title="Jo Swinson">Jo Swinson</a>, who lost her seat in <a href="/wiki/East_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">East Dunbartonshire.</a> Sturgeon was branded as "ungracious" when she was filmed by <a href="/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News">Sky News</a> celebrating Swinson's defeat. Sturgeon apologised for being overexcited although expressed that she was celebrating <a href="/wiki/Amy_Callaghan" title="Amy Callaghan">Amy Callaghan</a>'s win.<a href="#cite_note-149">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[151]</a> In the wake of the results, Sturgeon said that <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> had "no right" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum after an "overwhelming" SNP election victory. She also said that the result "renews, reinforces and strengthens" the mandate for <a href="/wiki/Indyref2" class="mw-redirect" title="Indyref2">Indyref2</a>.<a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="COVID-19_pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland">COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_(49781060278).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg/220px-First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg/330px-First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg/440px-First_Minister%27s_COVID-19_Statement_-_16_April_2020_%2849781060278%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9223" data-file-height="5018" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon at a Scottish Government daily COVID-19 briefing</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">worldwide pandemic</a> of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> began during Sturgeon's second term as First Minister. The first case of the virus in Scotland was confirmed on 1 March 2020, when a resident in <a href="/wiki/Tayside" title="Tayside">Tayside</a> had tested positive. Initially, the Scottish Government resisted banning public events and on 12 March allowed 47,000 fans to attend a Rangers match at Ibrox, insisting that, "stopping mass gatherings [is] not the best way to contain this virus."<a href="#cite_note-earlier_lockdown-154">[153]</a> However, Sturgeon's government ordered all schools and nurseries in Scotland closed on 20 March to try to limit the spread of the virus.<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a> On 23 March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Sturgeon ordered Scotland into "lockdown", limiting the reasons why people may leave their homes in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus, to protect the health of the population, and to ease the pressure the virus placed on <a href="/wiki/NHS_Scotland" title="NHS Scotland">NHS Scotland</a> services and workforce.<a href="#cite_note-156">[155]</a><a href="#cite_note-157">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> Subsequently the restrictions were repeatedly tightened, loosened and adapted in parts or all of Scotland in response to developments in the situation.<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a> During the early stages of the pandemic, 1,300 elderly hospital patients were transferred into care homes without receiving a negative coronavirus test result.<a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a> Many had been infected with the virus and ended up passing it on to other care home residents.<a href="#cite_note-161">[160]</a> Over three thousand care home residents died from COVID-19<a href="#cite_note-thetimes.co.uk-162">[161]</a> and Gary Smith, Scotland Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/GMB_(trade_union)" title="GMB (trade union)">GMB</a>, said the policy had turned "care homes into morgues".<a href="#cite_note-thetimes.co.uk-162">[161]</a> When asked by the BBC if the policy had been a mistake, Sturgeon said: "Looking back on that now, with the knowledge we have now and with the benefit of hindsight, yes."<a href="#cite_note-163">[162]</a> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_(50572368836).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg/226px-British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg/339px-British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg/452px-British-Irish_Council_Summit_2020_-_6_November_2020_%2850572368836%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5793" data-file-height="3509" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon speaking virtually at the <a href="/wiki/British%E2%80%93Irish_Council" title="British–Irish Council">British-Irish Council</a> Summit 2020</figcaption></figure>In April 2020 whistle-blowers in the NHS came forward to reveal that staff were being made to reuse dirty <a href="/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment" title="Personal protective equipment">personal protective equipment (PPE)</a> while at work. One nurse told STV, "[When we hear the government say supplies are fine] it's not frustrating, it's crushing. It is absolutely crushing. We feel we are being lied to."<a href="#cite_note-164">[163]</a> Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament in July, "At no point within this crisis has Scotland run out of any aspect of PPE. We have worked hard to make sure that supplies are there, we've worked hard overcoming challenges that we have faced along the way."<a href="#cite_note-165">[164]</a> In July 2020, Sturgeon advocated that the leaders of the four UK nations adopt a coordinated <a href="/wiki/Zero-COVID" title="Zero-COVID">Zero-COVID</a> strategy.<a href="#cite_note-:02-166">[165]</a> In February 2021, Audit Scotland published a report that concluded the Scottish government had not prepared adequately for a pandemic. While it commended the authorities for preventing hospitals from becoming overwhelmed during the crisis, the watchdog also noted that recommendations from pandemic planning exercises in 2015, 2016 and 2018 had not been fully implemented. One particular problem it highlighted was that not enough had been done to ensure Scottish hospitals and care homes had enough personal protective equipment. Overall, it concluded that ministers "could have been better prepared to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic". Sturgeon said there were "lots of lessons to learn".<a href="#cite_note-167">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a> In March 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Session" title="Court of Session">Court of Session</a> declared that the Scottish government's prohibition on communal worship, imposed during the pandemic, was unlawful.<a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a> This followed an open letter two months earlier, written by 200 church leaders to Sturgeon, warning her that the prohibition could be unlawful.<a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> In April 2021, Scotland's death toll from COVID-19 passed 10,000.<a href="#cite_note-171">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[171]</a> At a session of First Minister's Questions in June 2021, Sturgeon was asked about mistakes made early on in the pandemic, and she replied: "If I could turn the clock back, would we go into lockdown earlier than we did? Yes, I think that is true."<a href="#cite_note-earlier_lockdown-154">[153]</a> In April 2022, Sturgeon demanded that Prime Minister Boris Johnson resign after police fined him for breaking lockdown rules in 2020. "The basic values of integrity and decency – essential to the proper working of any parliamentary democracy – demand that he go", she tweeted.<a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[173]</a> The following week, Sturgeon received an official reprimand from Police Scotland after a video emerged of her campaigning in a barber shop without a mask. Sturgeon – who had previously apologised to the Scottish Parliament after she was caught breaking the same law in December 2020<a href="#cite_note-175">[174]</a> – apologised once more and said the police had been "absolutely right to treat me no differently to any other citizen."<a href="#cite_note-176">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[176]</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_term_(2021–23)">Third term (2021–23)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_(51643831863).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg/220px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg/330px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg/440px-First_Minister_meets_the_Prime_Minister_of_Viet_Nam_%2851643831863%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6080" data-file-height="4166" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon meets <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Vietnam" title="Prime Minister of Vietnam">Prime Minister of Vietnam</a> <a href="/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Minh_Ch%C3%ADnh" title="Phạm Minh Chính">Phạm Minh Chính</a>, 2021</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon led the SNP into the <a href="/wiki/2021_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2021 Scottish Parliament election">2021 Scottish Parliament election</a> on a manifesto promise to hold a second independence referendum after the COVID-19 pandemic was over.<a href="#cite_note-179">[178]</a> In the election, the SNP won 64 of the 129 seats contested.<a href="#cite_note-BBCMay21-180">[179]</a> The SNP won a fourth consecutive election, albeit short of an overall majority, with a record number of votes on both the constituency and regional vote[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>] as well as increasing their share of the constituency vote and making a net gain of one seat.<a href="#cite_note-BBCMay21-180">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-181">[180]</a> Sturgeon was nominated for the post of <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister</a> by a vote of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> on 18 May, defeating <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative">Scottish Conservative</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Ross_(Scottish_politician)" title="Douglas Ross (Scottish politician)">Douglas Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Liberal Democrat">Scottish Liberal Democrat</a> leader Willie Rennie by 64 votes to 31 and 4 respectively. This win resulted in Sturgeon becoming the first First Minister in the history of the Scottish Parliament to form a <a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">third government</a>. Shortly after being elected, Sturgeon appointed John Swinney to the newly created position of <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Covid_Recovery" title="Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery">Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery</a>.<a href="#cite_note-182">[181]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Power-sharing_agreement">Power-sharing agreement</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party%E2%80%93Scottish_Greens_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish National Party–Scottish Greens agreement">Scottish National Party–Scottish Greens agreement</a></div> In August 2021, Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party co-leaders <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Harvie" title="Patrick Harvie">Patrick Harvie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lorna_Slater" title="Lorna Slater">Lorna Slater</a> reached a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party%E2%80%93Scottish_Greens_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish National Party–Scottish Greens agreement">power-sharing agreement between their parties</a>. There was no agreement on oil and gas exploration, but the government now argued that it had a stronger case for a national independence referendum.<a href="#cite_note-183">[182]</a> As part of the agreement, the Green Party co-leaders would be nominated to serve as ministers.<a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_(51649202102).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg/220px-International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg/330px-International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg/440px-International_leaders_sign_joint_statement_at_COP26_%2851649202102%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6693" data-file-height="5259" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh" title="Prime Minister of Bangladesh">Prime Minister of Bangladesh</a> <a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Hasina" title="Sheikh Hasina">Sheikh Hasina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Estonia" title="Prime Minister of Estonia">Prime Minister of Estonia</a> <a href="/wiki/Kaja_Kallas" title="Kaja Kallas">Kaja Kallas</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_Tanzania" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Tanzania">President of Tanzania</a> <a href="/wiki/Samia_Suluhu_Hassan" title="Samia Suluhu Hassan">Samia Suluhu Hassan</a>, and Sturgeon at the <a href="/wiki/UN" class="mw-redirect" title="UN">UN</a>'s <a href="/wiki/COP26" class="mw-redirect" title="COP26">COP26</a>, November 2021</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Climate_crisis">Climate crisis</h4></div> In August 2021, confronted by climate activist Lauren Macdonald about the <a href="/wiki/Cambo_oil_field" title="Cambo oil field">Cambo oil field</a> west of Shetland, Sturgeon refused to take a position on whether its development should go ahead. A video of the interaction went viral<a href="#cite_note-:62-4">[4]</a> and a few days later, Sturgeon wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking that the development of Cambo should be "reassessed in light of the severity of the climate emergency".<a href="#cite_note-185">[184]</a> The letter represented a significant shift in policy for the SNP, which had <a href="/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil" title="It's Scotland's oil">historically been a strong supporter of the oil and gas industry</a>; the party's blueprint for an independent Scotland in 2013 was predicated on tax revenue earned from domestic oil production, while Sturgeon had predicted in the run-up to the referendum that, "We're on the verge of another North Sea bonanza".<a href="#cite_note-186">[185]</a> This shift in position was welcomed by the Scottish Green party but <a href="/wiki/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace">Greenpeace</a> criticised Sturgeon for not coming out more strongly against the oil field. "The First Minister must stop hiding behind Boris Johnson", a spokesperson for the organisation said. "If she wants to show leadership on climate she must clearly say: stop Cambo."<a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a> In November 2021, although no assessment had taken place, Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament she believed the oilfield "should not get the green light".<a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Caledonian_MacBrayne_ferry_delay">Caledonian MacBrayne ferry delay</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ferry_fiasco" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferry fiasco">Ferry fiasco</a></div> In the late 2010s, Scottish islanders began to complain that the ageing ferry fleet that connected them to the mainland had become increasingly unreliable.<a href="#cite_note-189">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a> During the winter of 2022 only one in three sailings to the island of <a href="/wiki/Coll" title="Coll">Coll</a> went ahead;<a href="#cite_note-193">[192]</a> Hebridean shopkeepers kept receiving deliveries of rotten food;<a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-195">[194]</a> while other islanders said they had missed doctors' appointments, funerals and even the chance to say goodbye to dying loved ones because of cancelled sailings.<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-198">[197]</a> The Scottish Government had commissioned two new ferries for £97m from Ferguson's shipyard in 2015, but the construction of the two vessels was beset by delays and complications. In 2022 Audit Scotland concluded that the final price tag for the vessels would be somewhere between £250m and £400m once the ships were finished in 2023. Furthermore, they concluded that the Scottish Government had awarded the contracts without normal financial safeguards and presided over a "multitude of failings".<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-201">[200]</a> Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament of her "deep regret" that islanders were enduring such chaos, and said that the government was "learning lessons from this experience".<a href="#cite_note-202">[201]</a><a href="#cite_note-203">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-201">[200]</a> Key documentation, which might have explained why ministers signed the contracts without appropriate safeguards to protect taxpayers' money, was lost and Sturgeon later said this too was "regrettable" and that "the government will learn lessons."<a href="#cite_note-204">[203]</a><a href="#cite_note-205">[204]</a><a href="#cite_note-206">[205]</a><a href="#cite_note-207">[206]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_independence_referendum_proposals">Second independence referendum proposals</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg/220px-First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg/330px-First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg/440px-First_Minister_Nicola_Sturgeon_meets_with_Prime_Minister_Rishi_Sunak_in_Blackpool.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="534" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a> is the fifth British prime minister to serve during Sturgeon's premiership; like his predecessors, he has rejected calls for a second referendum.</figcaption></figure> In June 2022, Sturgeon officially unveiled plans for <a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a> once again.<a href="#cite_note-208">[207]</a> She argued that her government had an "indisputable mandate" for a <a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">second Scottish independence referendum.</a> She argued that independence would allow Scotland to set out "a different and better vision"<a href="#cite_note-209">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-210">[209]</a> and claimed that there is a legally secure path to get a referendum without permission from the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Cabinet of the United Kingdom">cabinet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-211">[210]</a> This plan has been met with condemnation from various opposing parties, with the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> rejecting her plan.<a href="#cite_note-212">[211]</a> Sturgeon scheduled the referendum for 19 October 2023.<a href="#cite_note-213">[212]</a> She sought the Prime Minister to consent to the vote by signing a section 30 order, a move that Downing Street has refused to comply.<a href="#cite_note-:1-214">[213]</a> She asked <a href="/wiki/Lord_Advocate" title="Lord Advocate">Scotland's Lord Advocate</a> to consider referring the matter to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Supreme Court of the United Kingdom">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a> to rule if the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a> has the power to host a referendum without the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">Government of the United Kingdom's</a> approval, this request has since been granted.<a href="#cite_note-:1-214">[213]</a><a href="#cite_note-215">[214]</a> In October 2022, Sturgeon launched her government's third independence paper, which outlines the currency in an independent Scotland and joining the EU.<a href="#cite_note-216">[215]</a> She proposed the Scottish Government would use the <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">pound sterling</a> for a brief period before transitioning to a new currency known as the '<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Pound" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Pound">Scottish Pound</a>'.<a href="#cite_note-217">[216]</a><a href="#cite_note-218">[217]</a> She argued independence would be "essential" for <a href="/wiki/Economic_prosperity" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic prosperity">economic prosperity</a> for Scotland as she claimed the economic climate throughout the UK does not offer strength, stability or security.<a href="#cite_note-219">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-220">[219]</a> On the day the Supreme Court ruled the Scottish Parliament does not have the power to legislate a referendum on independence, Sturgeon declared the next democratic election in Scotland - in this case a <a href="/wiki/UK_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="UK general election">UK general election</a> expected <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">to be held in 2024</a> - would be campaigned by the SNP as a <a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a> referendum.<a href="#cite_note-221">[220]</a><a href="#cite_note-222">[221]</a> Unionist parties have rejected this characterisation.<a href="#cite_note-223">[222]</a><a href="#cite_note-224">[223]</a> Some SNP members urged Sturgeon to call an <a href="/wiki/Next_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="Next Scottish Parliament election">early election at Holyrood</a> to speed up the process for a de facto referendum.<a href="#cite_note-225">[224]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gender_recognition_reforms">Gender recognition reforms</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Reform_(Scotland)_Bill" title="Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill">Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill</a></div> As part of the SNP's 2016 manifesto policy, the SNP pledged to voters that it would review and reform the way that trans people change their legal gender.<a href="#cite_note-:8-226">[225]</a> However, the policy divided the party and the bill was delayed during Sturgeon's second term in office because of opposition to the policy and the COVID-19 pandemic.<a href="#cite_note-:9-227">[226]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-228">[227]</a><a href="#cite_note-:10-229">[228]</a> In the 2021 SNP manifesto, Sturgeon committed the party once again to reform the <a href="/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Act_2004" title="Gender Recognition Act 2004">Gender Recognition Act 2004</a> of the <a href="/wiki/UK_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Parliament">UK Parliament</a> and in August that year included the commitment in her agreement with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Scottish Greens</a> on power-sharing.<a href="#cite_note-:11-230">[229]</a><a href="#cite_note-:12-231">[230]</a> In September 2021, Sturgeon was accused of shutting down debate about gender reforms after she described concerns about gender recognition reform as "not valid" and campaign groups and analysts complained that their concerns were being ignored.<a href="#cite_note-:13-232">[231]</a> On 22 December 2022, the Scottish Parliament voted 86 to 39 to pass the <a href="/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Reform_(Scotland)_Bill" title="Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill">Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill</a> which was introduced by Sturgeon's government. On 17 January 2023, the UK Government decided to invoke, for the first time, section 35 of the Scottish Act 1998, to make an order which prevented the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from gaining Royal Assent. She opposed the decision made and criticised <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Secretary">Scottish Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Alister_Jack" title="Alister Jack">Alister Jack</a> for blocking the bill and said that the decision was an attack on the Scottish Parliament and Scottish democracy as a whole and said that the matter would be brought to the courts.<a href="#cite_note-:14-233">[232]</a> In 2023, Sturgeon was criticised in connection with <a href="/wiki/Isla_Bryson_case" title="Isla Bryson case">the case of Isla Bryson</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Transgender_woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Transgender woman">transgender woman</a> who had raped two women prior to her <a href="/wiki/Gender_transition" title="Gender transition">transition</a>. On this basis, Bryson was initially sent to a women's prison but was later moved to a men's prison. Sturgeon refused to say if she regards Bryson as a man or woman, though she used female pronouns when talking about Bryson.<a href="#cite_note-B-234">[233]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Resignation">Resignation</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_(52689954077).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg/220px-First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg/330px-First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg/440px-First_Minister_Press_Briefing_at_Bute_House_-_15_February_2023_%2852689954077%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8202" data-file-height="5605" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon resigns at a press conference in Bute House, 15 February 2023</figcaption></figure> On 15 February 2023, Sturgeon resigned as <a href="/wiki/First_minister_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="First minister of Scotland">first minister of Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Scottish_National_Party" title="Leader of the Scottish National Party">leader of the Scottish National Party</a>, pending a <a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">leadership election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-235">[234]</a> At a press conference in Bute House, Sturgeon insisted that her resignation was not due to "short term pressures" and stated that the job "takes its toll on you".<a href="#cite_note-236">[235]</a> Sturgeon stated that she believed that her successor would lead Scotland to independence and that she would look on with pride whoever takes on the role.<a href="#cite_note-237">[236]</a> While appearing on a <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a> for BBC Scotland, Sturgeon would later say that internet speculation about her life was a part of the reason she decided to stand down from her position as first minister, specifically referring to rumours regarding her sexuality, love life and property portfolio as being wildly inaccurate.<a href="#cite_note-238">[237]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_issues">Domestic issues</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Drugs_deaths_crisis">Drugs deaths crisis</h4></div> In 2016, the Scottish Government cut direct funding to drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes from £69.2 million to £53.8 million – a drop of 22%.<a href="#cite_note-heraldscotland-239">[238]</a><a href="#cite_note-240">[239]</a> At the time, Scottish Drugs Forum Chief Executive David Liddell said he was concerned that the cuts had "the potential to increase harm and drug-related deaths."<a href="#cite_note-heraldscotland-239">[238]</a> That year 867 Scots lost their lives to drugs – an increase of 23% on the previous year's figure – and the SNP insisted it was part of a trend seen across much of Europe.<a href="#cite_note-241">[240]</a> In December 2020, figures were released revealing that 1,264 people in Scotland had died from drug overdoses in 2019 – the highest number in Europe per head and more than double the number in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-242">[241]</a> Sturgeon sacked her Public Health Minister <a href="/wiki/Joe_FitzPatrick" title="Joe FitzPatrick">Joe FitzPatrick</a>, and in April 2021 said of the crisis: "I think we took our eye off the ball."<a href="#cite_note-243">[242]</a> The crisis has particularly impacted the homeless in Scotland: 216 homeless people died in Scotland in 2019 – an increase of 11% on the previous year; over half (54%) of these deaths were drug-related.<a href="#cite_note-244">[243]</a> Per head, Scotland's death rate among the homeless is the highest in Britain.<a href="#cite_note-245">[244]</a> In August 2021, the Scottish Government announced there had been 1,339 drug deaths in the previous year – a new record high.<a href="#cite_note-246">[245]</a> Sturgeon tweeted that the figures were "unacceptable, each one a human tragedy",<a href="#cite_note-247">[246]</a> while the Scottish Liberal Democrats said: "It was Nicola Sturgeon's choice to ignore this unfolding epidemic. Issuing apologies now is too late for thousands of people. The victims of drugs and their families were failed. It is a scar on the conscience of this Scottish Government."<a href="#cite_note-248">[247]</a> In July 2022, the figures for 2021 were released, revealing that 1,330 had died – nine fewer than in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-249">[248]</a> Annemarie Ward, chief executive at the FAVOR Scotland charity, said: "Nicola Sturgeon said she would make it her national mission to save lives – but we're still losing more than 1000 people a year. The national mission is failing."<a href="#cite_note-250">[249]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Education_performance">Education performance</h4></div> In 2015, Sturgeon said that she planned to make education her "defining priority" while in office.<a href="#cite_note-251">[250]</a> In particular, she said she hoped to focus on closing the attainment gap between the richest and poorest children in Scottish schools, telling journalists: "Let me be clear – I want to be judged on this. If you are not, as First Minister, prepared to put your neck on the line on the education of our young people then what are you prepared to. It really matters."<a href="#cite_note-252">[251]</a> In 2021, Audit Scotland concluded: "Progress on closing the poverty-related attainment gap between the most and least deprived school pupils has been limited"<a href="#cite_note-253">[252]</a> and fell short of the Government's aims.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_school-254">[253]</a> In some local authorities, the attainment gap between the richest and poorest students had widened.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_school-254">[253]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_relations">International relations</h3></div> While <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign policy of the United Kingdom">foreign policy</a> remains a <a href="/wiki/Reserved_matter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reserved matter">reserved matter</a>,<a href="#cite_note-parliament.scot-255">[254]</a> Sturgeon has undertaken a number of visits to Europe, North America and Asia to promote Scotland as a place of investment and Scottish businesses to trade and do business with.<a href="#cite_note-256">[255]</a><a href="#cite_note-257">[256]</a><a href="#cite_note-258">[257]</a> Sturgeon has committed to strengthening links between Scotland and <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-259">[258]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="European_Union">European Union</h4></div> In response to the Brexit vote, to discuss Scotland's interests, Sturgeon travelled to <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> to meet with both <a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker" title="Jean-Claude Juncker">Jean-Claude Juncker</a>, the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Martin_Schulz" title="Martin Schulz">Martin Schulz</a>, the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Parliament" title="President of the European Parliament">President of the European Parliament</a>.<a href="#cite_note-260">[259]</a><a href="#cite_note-261">[260]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg/228px-FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg" decoding="async" width="228" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg/342px-FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg/456px-FM_meets_with_Juncker.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker" title="Jean-Claude Juncker">Jean-Claude Juncker</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, 2017</figcaption></figure> In response to the UK-wide vote for the United Kingdom to leave the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a>, headed by Sturgeon, launched the Scotland's Place in Europe document, a white paper setting out the Scottish government's aims and wishes of Scotland's role in Europe post-Brexit. The paper was sent to the central <a href="/wiki/British_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="British Government">British Government</a> to be read by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>. In June 2017, Sturgeon criticised the approaches taken by both <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> and the British Government towards the Brexit approach, claiming that May "will struggle" as she is a "difficult person to build a rapport with". In the same interview, Sturgeon committed to no independence referendum being held prior to the terms of a UK wide Brexit deal being agreed and presented.<a href="#cite_note-262">[261]</a> With a view towards Brexit, Sturgeon demanded greater powers for the Scottish Parliament, arguing that Brexit is threatening Scotland's <a href="/wiki/Scottish_devolution_settlement" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish devolution settlement">devolution settlement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-263">[262]</a> With London seeking to restrict immigration to the United Kingdom, she asserted that Scotland should be able to set its own immigration policy, as well as policies relating to employment and trade.<a href="#cite_note-:0-263">[262]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States">United States</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_(51670878400).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg/220px-First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg/330px-First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg/440px-First_Minister_meeting_Nancy_Pelosi_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_%2851670878400%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4614" data-file-height="3480" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_US_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker of the US House of Representatives">Speaker of the US House of Representatives</a> <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>, November 2021</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon was highly critical of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> and his policies during the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016 United States presidential election</a> and had publicly backed his <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> rival <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-264">[263]</a> Sturgeon highlighted her disapproval of his language and views relating to sexism and misogyny, and stated upon Trump's victory that she hopes "Trump turns out to be a president different to the one he was during his campaign and reaches out to those who felt vilified by his campaign".<a href="#cite_note-265">[264]</a> Sturgeon had previously stripped Trump of his ambassadorial role for Scottish businesses with the Scottish government in the aftermath of Trump's views of an outright ban of <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> from entering the United States. Sturgeon claimed following comments made by Trump in relation to Muslims entering the United States that he was "not fit" for the ambassadorial role with the Scottish government.<a href="#cite_note-stv.tv-266">[265]</a> In May 2022, Sturgeon made a trip to the United States and met with controversial <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> member of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Aderholt" title="Robert Aderholt">Robert Aderholt</a>, a prominent <a href="/wiki/Anti-abortion_movement_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-abortion movement in the United States">anti-abortion</a> supporter.<a href="#cite_note-267">[266]</a><a href="#cite_note-268">[267]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spain">Spain</h4></div> In the run up to the <a href="/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_referendum" title="2017 Catalan independence referendum">2017 Catalan independence referendum</a>, Nicola Sturgeon offered her own personal backing and that of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a> to <a href="/wiki/Catalonia" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a> in the holding of a referendum.<a href="#cite_note-Archived_copy-269">[268]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Spain" title="Government of Spain">Government of Spain</a> criticised Sturgeon, claiming she had "totally misunderstood" the situation in Spain and Catalonia.<a href="#cite_note-Archived_copy-269">[268]</a> Sturgeon highlighted that Spain should follow "the shining example" that was created as part of the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Agreement_(2012)" title="Edinburgh Agreement (2012)">Edinburgh Agreement</a> between the Scottish and British governments that allowed Scotland to hold a legally binding referendum.<a href="#cite_note-270">[269]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Constitutional_affairs">Constitutional affairs</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scottish_independence">Scottish independence</h4></div> An advocate for <a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a>, Sturgeon has campaigned for independence from the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> since her late teens. She was categorised in 2015 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalists_and_gradualists" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamentalists and gradualists">SNP's gradualist wing</a>, which believed in achieving independence through accumulating the Scottish Parliament's powers from the UK Parliament over time.<a href="#cite_note-Torr2015-271">[270]</a> In recent years, following the defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Yes_Scotland_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Yes Scotland campaign">Yes Scotland campaign</a> in <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">2014 Scottish Independence referendum</a>, Sturgeon has aligned herself with the new gradualist wing, who believe in only holding a <a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">second referendum</a> if there is clear public support, such as polling being over 60%, or if there is a material change in circumstances.<a href="#cite_note-Torr2015-271">[270]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Monarch">Monarch</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_(21086320980).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg/220px-Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg/330px-Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg/440px-Official_Opening_of_the_Borders_Rail_%2821086320980%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3640" data-file-height="2552" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon with <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> at the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Borders_Railway" title="Borders Railway">Borders Railway</a>, 2015</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon is a constitutional monarchist, telling journalists that it is "a model that has many merits".<a href="#cite_note-272">[271]</a> On the day <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> became Britain's longest reigning monarch, Sturgeon travelled with her to open the <a href="/wiki/Borders_Railway" title="Borders Railway">Borders Railway</a> and told a crowd of well-wishers: "She [The Queen] has carried out her duties with dedication, wisdom and an exemplary sense of public service. The reception she has received today, demonstrates that that admiration and affection is certainly felt here in Scotland."<a href="#cite_note-273">[272]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Elizabeth_II" title="Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II">death of the Queen Elizabeth II</a>, Sturgeon led tributes to the Queen.<a href="#cite_note-274">[273]</a> She described the Queen as the "greatest constant in our national life" and added her death was "a day for reflection and remembrance" and "a day for giving thanks to The Queen for her devotion to duty and the decades of public service she gave to the people of Scotland."<a href="#cite_note-275">[274]</a><a href="#cite_note-276">[275]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_policy">Economic policy</h3></div> She has at times been a critic of <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme" title="United Kingdom government austerity programme">austerity</a>, saying that the UK government's "austerity economics" is "morally unjustifiable and economically unsustainable".<a href="#cite_note-277">[276]</a> However, in 2018, she endorsed her party's Growth Commission report that pledged to reduce an independent Scotland's budget deficit as a percentage of GDP<a href="#cite_note-278">[277]</a> – something the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Fiscal_Studies" title="Institute for Fiscal Studies">Institute for Fiscal Studies</a> concluded meant "continued austerity".<a href="#cite_note-279">[278]</a><a href="#cite_note-280">[279]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_issues">Social issues</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Women's_rights">Women's rights</h4></div> Sturgeon has also campaigned on <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">women's rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gender_equality" title="Gender equality">gender equality</a>, and is a self-described <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a>; she has argued that Scotland's feminist movement is not simply symbolic, but "sends a powerful signal about equality".<a href="#cite_note-281">[280]</a> She has hailed Scottish feminist economist <a href="/wiki/Ailsa_McKay" title="Ailsa McKay">Ailsa McKay</a> as one of her inspirations.<a href="#cite_note-282">[281]</a> She has at various points commented on the behaviour or attitudes of men towards women; publicly condemning Donald Trump,<a href="#cite_note-283">[282]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Abbott" title="Tony Abbott">Tony Abbott</a><a href="#cite_note-284">[283]</a> and former Labour MSP <a href="/wiki/Neil_Findlay" title="Neil Findlay">Neil Findlay</a>.<a href="#cite_note-285">[284]</a> However, she defended her party's leader Alex Salmond from accusations of sexism. After Salmond had told Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/Anna_Soubry" title="Anna Soubry">Anna Soubry</a>, "Behave yourself, woman" in 2015, Sturgeon said: "The fundamental question, 'does that language indicate that Alex Salmond is sexist?' Absolutely not, there's no man I know who is less sexist."<a href="#cite_note-286">[285]</a><a href="#cite_note-287">[286]</a><a href="#cite_note-288">[287]</a> Commenting on the need for men to challenge their friends' misogynistic behaviour, Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament in 2021: "I would say to all men in this chamber and all men across the country — challenge it [misogyny] if it's on the part of other men you may know, challenge your own behaviour and then let's collectively, as a society, turn the page and turn the corner so that women can live free of the fear of harassment, abuse, intimidation, violence and, in the worst cases, death."<a href="#cite_note-289">[288]</a><a href="#cite_note-290">[289]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Transgender_rights">Transgender rights</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg/220px-Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg/330px-Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg/440px-Nicola_Sturgeon_leading_the_Pride_parade_at_Glasgow_Pride_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon leading <a href="/wiki/Pride_parade" title="Pride parade">pride parade</a> at <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> Pride 2018</figcaption></figure>Ahead of the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Sturgeon pledged to review and reform the way that trans people change their legal gender.<a href="#cite_note-:8-226">[225]</a> However, proposed changes to Scotland's Gender Recognition Act that would have allowed people to change their identity through self-identification, rather than a medical process, were paused in June 2019.<a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-228">[227]</a> Critics of the changes within the SNP had accused Sturgeon of being "out of step" on the issue, and expressed concerns that the reforms would be open to abuse and allow predatory men into women's spaces.<a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-228">[227]</a><a href="#cite_note-291">[290]</a> The Scottish Government said it had paused the legislation in order to find "maximum consensus" on the issue<a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-228">[227]</a> and commentators described the issue as having divided the SNP like no other, with many dubbing the debate a "civil war".<a href="#cite_note-292">[291]</a><a href="#cite_note-293">[292]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-227">[226]</a> In April 2020, the reforms were again delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<a href="#cite_note-:10-229">[228]</a> In January 2021, a former trans officer in the SNP's LGBT wing, Teddy Hope, quit the party, claiming it was one of the "core hubs of transphobia in Scotland".<a href="#cite_note-294">[293]</a> Large numbers of LGBT activists followed suit and Sturgeon released a video message in which she said that transphobia is "not acceptable" and said she hoped they would re-join the party.<a href="#cite_note-295">[294]</a><a href="#cite_note-296">[295]</a> In the 2021 SNP manifesto, Sturgeon committed the party once again to reform the Gender Recognition Act<a href="#cite_note-:11-230">[229]</a> and in August that year included the commitment in her agreement with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Scottish Greens</a> on power-sharing.<a href="#cite_note-:12-231">[230]</a> In September 2021, Sturgeon was accused of shutting down debate about gender reforms after she described concerns about gender recognition reform as "not valid" and campaign groups and analysts complained that their concerns were being ignored.<a href="#cite_note-:13-232">[231]</a> On 22 December 2022, the Scottish Parliament voted 86 to 39 to pass the <a href="/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Reform_(Scotland)_Bill" title="Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill">Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill</a> which was introduced by Sturgeon's government, but the bill was vetoed by the UK government.<a href="#cite_note-:14-233">[232]</a> In 2023, Sturgeon was criticised in connection with the <a href="/wiki/Isla_Bryson_case" title="Isla Bryson case">Isla Bryson case</a>, in which a <a href="/wiki/Transgender_woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Transgender woman">transgender woman</a> who had raped two women when named Adam Graham began self-identifying as a woman after being charged. Bryson was sent to a women's prison before being moved to a men's prison.<a href="#cite_note-B-234">[233]</a> Sturgeon refused to say if she regards Bryson as a man or woman, though she used female pronouns when talking about Bryson.<a href="#cite_note-B-234">[233]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nuclear_weapons">Nuclear weapons</h3></div> Sturgeon has campaigned against replacing the <a href="/wiki/Trident_nuclear_programme" class="mw-redirect" title="Trident nuclear programme">Trident nuclear weapons system</a>.<a href="#cite_note-297">[296]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Views_on_Conservative_government_policies">Views on Conservative government policies</h3></div> At the SNP's 2022 annual party conference in <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, Sturgeon stated: "I detest the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Tories</a> and everything they stand for" in an interview on the BBC.<a href="#cite_note-298">[297]</a><a href="#cite_note-299">[298]</a> She was accused of using "dangerous language" and when asked if she regretted the comments, Sturgeon simply replied "no" and emphasised the point she detested Tory policies and not supporters or voters.<a href="#cite_note-300">[299]</a><a href="#cite_note-301">[300]</a><a href="#cite_note-302">[301]</a><a href="#cite_note-303">[302]</a> Sturgeon has been highly critical towards the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Boris_Johnson" title="Premiership of Boris Johnson">government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-304">[303]</a> Following Johnson's appointment as <a href="/wiki/British_prime_minister" class="mw-redirect" title="British prime minister">British prime minister</a>, she claimed he "rambled" in his first speech outside <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a> and suggested he was "blame shifting".<a href="#cite_note-305">[304]</a><a href="#cite_note-306">[305]</a> In July 2019, the prime minister met Sturgeon at her official residence, Bute House, where Johnson was "booed and heckled" by protesters.<a href="#cite_note-307">[306]</a><a href="#cite_note-308">[307]</a> This was the only occasion when he made a formal visit to Edinburgh, as he declined future invites by the first minister.<a href="#cite_note-309">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-310">[309]</a><a href="#cite_note-311">[310]</a> Sturgeon claimed Johnson's "fragile male ego" stopped him from meeting her.<a href="#cite_note-312">[311]</a><a href="#cite_note-313">[312]</a> Sturgeon's attempts to request approval for a second referendum on Scottish independence were declined by the Johnson administration.<a href="#cite_note-314">[313]</a> Speaking after Johnson had resigned in 2022, Sturgeon said that he was the only prime minister she had worked with who was "a disgrace to the office".<a href="#cite_note-315">[314]</a><a href="#cite_note-316">[315]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post_premiership_(2023–present)">Post premiership (2023–present)</h2></div> Upon her resignation as First Minister, Sturgeon returned to the <a href="/wiki/Backbench" class="mw-redirect" title="Backbench">backbench</a>, where she continues to serve as the MSP for <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Southside" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow Southside">Glasgow Southside</a>.<a href="#cite_note-317">[316]</a><a href="#cite_note-318">[317]</a> On 7 September 2023, she made her first speech in parliament since her arrest.<a href="#cite_note-319">[318]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SNP_finance_fraud_inquiry_and_arrest">SNP finance fraud inquiry and arrest</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Branchform" title="Operation Branchform">Operation Branchform</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png/220px-Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png/330px-Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png/440px-Nicola_Sturgeon_sits_on_the_backbenches_following_her_resignation.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon sits on the backbenches of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> during <a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a>'s speech to the chamber after having been elected as her successor, 28 March 2023</figcaption></figure> In the latter half of Sturgeon's leadership of the SNP, a <a href="/wiki/Police_Scotland" title="Police Scotland">Police Scotland</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_Branchform" title="Operation Branchform">fraud inquiry</a> was launched to investigate the spending of money that was raised specifically for independence campaigning.<a href="#cite_note-320">[319]</a><a href="#cite_note-321">[320]</a> She dismissed claims the investigation was a result of her resignation as party leader and first minister.<a href="#cite_note-322">[321]</a><a href="#cite_note-323">[322]</a><a href="#cite_note-324">[323]</a> On 5 April 2023, Sturgeon's husband and the party's former chief executive, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Murrell" title="Peter Murrell">Peter Murrell</a>, was arrested at their Glasgow residence and their home was searched amid the ongoing investigation.<a href="#cite_note-325">[324]</a> The SNP's HQ in Edinburgh and several other addresses related to party officials were also searched by police.<a href="#cite_note-326">[325]</a> Murrell was later released without charge and Sturgeon pulled out of a UN climate event.<a href="#cite_note-327">[326]</a> On 16 April, a meeting of the party's ruling body in March 2021 was leaked by a member to the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a>, which showed Sturgeon warning members to be "very careful" about suggesting claims there were financial problems within the SNP.<a href="#cite_note-328">[327]</a><a href="#cite_note-329">[328]</a> The following day, it was revealed Sturgeon would work remotely from parliament as a spokesperson stated: "in order to ensure the focus of this week is on the new First Minister setting out his priorities for the people of Scotland, Ms Sturgeon has always intended to participate remotely and intends to return to Holyrood in the near future.".<a href="#cite_note-330">[329]</a> In that same week, the SNP's treasurer, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Beattie" title="Colin Beattie">Colin Beatie</a>, was arrested and later released without charge.<a href="#cite_note-331">[330]</a> Beatie subsequently resigned from the role.<a href="#cite_note-332">[331]</a> Sturgeon's successor, <a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a>, has had calls by opposition for her party membership to be suspended, however, he has rejected these calls.<a href="#cite_note-333">[332]</a> Widespread speculation that Sturgeon could be arrested for police questioning amid the ongoing inquiry<a href="#cite_note-334">[333]</a><a href="#cite_note-335">[334]</a><a href="#cite_note-336">[335]</a> came to fruition when, on 11 June 2023, Sturgeon was arrested by <a href="/wiki/Police_Scotland" title="Police Scotland">Police Scotland</a> over the investigation into the finances of her SNP party, which reportedly diverted £600,000 meant for the Scottish Independence campaign elsewhere.<a href="#cite_note-337">[336]</a><a href="#cite_note-338">[337]</a><a href="#cite_note-339">[338]</a> She was released without charge pending further investigation later that day.<a href="#cite_note-340">[339]</a> On 23 May 2024 <a href="/wiki/Police_Scotland" title="Police Scotland">Police Scotland</a> handed a prosecution report in relation to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Murrell" title="Peter Murrell">Peter Murrell</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Crown_Office_and_Procurator_Fiscal_Service" title="Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service"> Crown Office</a> who confirmed that a "53 year-old woman" also remained under investigation.<a href="#cite_note-341">[340]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="COVID-19_inquiry">COVID-19 inquiry</h3></div> Sturgeon is facing a potential criminal inquiry in 2024 after it was disclosed that all her <a href="/wiki/WhatsApp" title="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</a> messages during the pandemic had been deleted despite being instructed by the government to retain all information in 2021 and again in 2022 and having agreed to provide them in 2021 to the <a href="/wiki/UK_COVID-19_Inquiry" title="UK COVID-19 Inquiry">UK COVID-19 Inquiry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-342">[341]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death_of_Alex_Salmond">Death of Alex Salmond</h3></div> <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>, Sturgeon's predecessor as first minister and whom Sturgeon described as her "political mentor", died on 12 October 2024 whilst in <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a>. Following the announcement of his death, Sturgeon claimed that both she and Salmond "formed one of the most successful partnerships in UK politics".<a href="#cite_note-343">[342]</a> In the years prior to Salmond's death, both individuals became embroiled in a public feud and their relationship broke down significantly, becoming the subject of the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">BBC Scotland</a> documentary Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union which was first broadcast on 12 September 2024, exactly one month prior to Salmond's death.<a href="#cite_note-344">[343]</a> As a result of their deteriorated relationship, Sturgeon was not invited to Salmond's funeral which was held in <a href="/wiki/Strichen" title="Strichen">Strichen</a> in <a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire" title="Aberdeenshire">Aberdeenshire</a> on 29 October 2024. It was later confirmed by the Scottish Government that Sturgeon and incumbent first minister John Swinney (who served in Salmond's government cabinets alongside Sturgeon) were not invited to the funeral upon the wishes of Salmond's family. Sturgeon did not attend the memorial service to Salmond in the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> on 30 October, claiming it would "not feel right to attend" and she would honour him in private.<a href="#cite_note-345">[344]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_image_and_legacy">Public image and legacy</h2></div> At the beginning of Sturgeon's political career, she was often regarded as a "nippy sweetie", <a href="/wiki/Scottish_slang" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish slang">Scottish slang</a> for the "sharp-tongued and strong-minded".<a href="#cite_note-346">[345]</a><a href="#cite_note-347">[346]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-348">[347]</a> The term was used to describe Sturgeon's "fierce" attitude.<a href="#cite_note-:4-348">[347]</a> Conversely, newspapers ideologically opposed to the SNP, such as the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Scottish Sun</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a> have repeatedly and derogatorily compared Sturgeon to "Wee Jimmy Krankie", a character from Scottish comedy duo <a href="/wiki/The_Krankies" title="The Krankies">The Krankies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-349">[348]</a><a href="#cite_note-350">[349]</a> Sturgeon was elected leader of the SNP at a time in which the party enjoyed a surge in membership. In 2015, Sturgeon was described in a <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a> headline as the "most dangerous woman in Britain".<a href="#cite_note-351">[350]</a><a href="#cite_note-352">[351]</a><a href="#cite_note-353">[352]</a> It followed her party's unprecedented gains in the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>, which questioned the future of the union.<a href="#cite_note-354">[353]</a> Sturgeon and her party experienced a surge in popularity during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>,<a href="#cite_note-355">[354]</a> in part due to her willingness to communicate with the public and the Press through regular, televised briefings, and her willingness to take responsibility for her government's mistakes. This contrasted to then-PM Boris Johnson's <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">approach</a>, who was "less proactive and more evasive when it came to dealing with the press".<a href="#cite_note-356">[355]</a> The circumstances of Sturgeon's resignation in 2023, as well as her appearances at the 2024 UK COVID-19 Inquiry left a question mark over her political legacy. A wide range of media outlets were quick to condemn her reputation, including <a href="/wiki/Politico_Europe" title="Politico Europe">Politico Europe</a>,<a href="#cite_note-357">[356]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a>,<a href="#cite_note-358">[357]</a><a href="#cite_note-359">[358]</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a>,<a href="#cite_note-360">[359]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a>,<a href="#cite_note-361">[360]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Week" title="The Week">The Week</a><a href="#cite_note-362">[361]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/The_i_Paper" title="The i Paper">i</a>.<a href="#cite_note-363">[362]</a> Nonetheless, public polling shows that Sturgeon remains a popular figure in Scottish and wider UK politics, with 46% of Scots having a favourable opinion of her in 2023 <a href="/wiki/YouGov" title="YouGov">YouGov</a> polling and 50% seeing her as having "been a good leader for Scotland".<a href="#cite_note-364">[363]</a> On leaving office, she was the most popular party leader in the UK according to <a href="/wiki/Ipsos" title="Ipsos">Ipsos</a> polling.<a href="#cite_note-365">[364]</a><a href="#cite_note-366">[365]</a> Her popular reputation suffered following her appearance at the 2024 COVID-19 inquiry and revelations she had deleted Whatsapp messages;<a href="#cite_note-367">[366]</a> however, polling has differed and there is still evidence of high trust towards her, usually along partisan lines.<a href="#cite_note-368">[367]</a> There is evidence that Nicola Sturgeon's popularity had an effect on the <a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">2023 SNP leadership race</a> which saw <a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a> elected as leader of the SNP and <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland" title="First Minister of Scotland">First Minister of Scotland</a>. Yousaf was widely regarded as Sturgeon's "continuity candidate",<a href="#cite_note-369">[368]</a> having previously worked as Sturgeon's <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Justice_and_Home_Affairs" title="Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs">Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2018–2021)</a> and for <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_NHS_Recovery,_Health_and_Social_Care" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care">Health (2021–2023)</a>. Hence, SNP members with a favourable view of Sturgeon were more likely to elect Yousaf, whereas those more critical of the outgoing FM were more likely to vote for his opponents, <a href="/wiki/Kate_Forbes" title="Kate Forbes">Kate Forbes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ash_Regan" title="Ash Regan">Ash Regan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-370">[369]</a> Sturgeon plans to publish a memoir with <a href="/wiki/Pan_MacMillan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan MacMillan">Pan MacMillan</a> in 2025.<a href="#cite_note-:6-371">[370]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_acknowledgements">Awards and acknowledgements</h2></div> Sturgeon won the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Politician_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Politician of the Year Award">Scottish Politician of the Year Award</a> in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019.<a href="#cite_note-372">[371]</a> <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> magazine ranked Sturgeon as the 50th most powerful woman in the world in 2016 and 2nd in the United Kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-2016_powerful_women-373">[372]</a><a href="#cite_note-374">[373]</a> She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2014.<a href="#cite_note-375">[374]</a> In 2015, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4's</a> <a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Hour" title="Woman's Hour">Woman's Hour</a> assessed Sturgeon to be the most powerful and influential woman in the United Kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-376">[375]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greenwood_Academy,_Dreghorn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg/220px-Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg/330px-Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg/440px-Greenwood_Academy%2C_Dreghorn.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Sturgeon attended <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Academy,_Dreghorn" title="Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn">Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn</a>, from 1982 to 1988.</figcaption></figure> Sturgeon lives in <a href="/wiki/Broomhouse,_Glasgow" title="Broomhouse, Glasgow">Broomhouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> with her husband, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Murrell" title="Peter Murrell">Peter Murrell</a>, who is the former chief executive officer of the SNP.<a href="#cite_note-377">[376]</a><a href="#cite_note-378">[377]</a><a href="#cite_note-379">[378]</a> The couple have been in a relationship since 2003. They got engaged on 29 January 2010,<a href="#cite_note-380">[379]</a> and were married on 16 July 2010 at <a href="/wiki/Kelvinside_Hillhead_Parish_Church,_Glasgow" title="Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Glasgow">Òran Mór</a> in Glasgow.<a href="#cite_note-381">[380]</a> On 13 January 2025, Sturgeon announced in a post on Instagram that she and Murrell had separated and are to divorce.<a href="#cite_note-382">[381]</a> Sturgeon is known for her love of fiction and says reading "gives me a lot of joy and helps with the stresses and strains of work".<a href="#cite_note-383">[382]</a><a href="#cite_note-384">[383]</a> Her mother Joan was the SNP Provost of <a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire" title="North Ayrshire">North Ayrshire</a> council, where she was councillor for the Irvine East ward from 2007 until 2016.<a href="#cite_note-385">[384]</a> In 2016, Sturgeon disclosed that she had miscarried five years previously.<a href="#cite_note-386">[385]</a> In May 2022, Sturgeon tested positive for COVID-19. 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Johnston Press. 16 July 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160919114046/http://www.scotsman.com/news/nicola-sturgeon-ties-the-knot-but-she-won-t-be-calling-herself-mrs-murrell-1-817668">Archived</a> from the original on 19 September 2016. 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I try (tho don't alway…"</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)" title="Tweet (social media)">Tweet</a>) – via <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%F0%9F%93%9A+I+love+reading+%E2%80%93+it+gives+me+a+lot+of+joy+and+helps+with+the+stresses+and+strains+of+work.+I+try+%28tho+don%27t+alway%E2%80%A6&rft.date=2019-12-21&rft.au=NicolaSturgeon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FNicolaSturgeon%2Fstatus%2F1208400064210706432&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANicola+Sturgeon" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-385"><a href="#cite_ref-385">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25333635">"The Nicola Sturgeon story"</a>. BBC News. 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In line with @scotgov guidance, I'll work from home over next few days, and hopefully be back out and about later next week.""</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)" title="Tweet (social media)">Tweet</a>) – via <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%22Unfortunately+I%27ve+tested+positive+for+Covid+this+evening+after+experiencing+mild+symptoms.+In+line+with+%40scotgov+guidance%2C+I%27ll+work+from+home+over+next+few+days%2C+and+hopefully+be+back+out+and+about+later+next+week.%22&rft.date=2022-05-20&rft.au=NicolaSturgeon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FNicolaSturgeon%2Fstatus%2F1527714597934927878&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANicola+Sturgeon" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1130092004">.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Glasgow_(Scottish_Parliament_electoral_region)" title="Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)">Glasgow</a> (1999–2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Nicola_Sturgeon" title="Premiership of Nicola Sturgeon">Premiership</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Governments <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sturgeon_government" title="Second Sturgeon government">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">Third</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="Proposed second Scottish independence referendum">Proposed second Scottish independence referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party%E2%80%93Scottish_Greens_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish National Party–Scottish Greens agreement">Scottish National Party–Scottish Greens agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Scotland_bin_strikes" title="2022 Scotland bin strikes">2022 Scotland bin strikes</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicola_Sturgeon_2021.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Nicola_Sturgeon_2021.jpg/120px-Nicola_Sturgeon_2021.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Nicola_Sturgeon_2021.jpg/180px-Nicola_Sturgeon_2021.jpg 1.5x, 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general)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2019 (European)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 (UK general)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2021 Scottish Parliament election">2019 (Scotland)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Murrell" title="Peter Murrell">Peter Murrell</a> (husband)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond_sexual_harassment_scandal" title="Alex Salmond sexual harassment scandal">Alex Salmond sexual harassment scandal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Alex_Salmond_scandal" title="Timeline of the Alex Salmond scandal">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Branchform" title="Operation Branchform">Operation Branchform</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /> 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Wallace">Jim Wallace</a> (acting; 11–27 October 2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_McLeish" title="Henry McLeish">Henry McLeish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Wallace" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Wallace">Jim Wallace</a> (acting; 8–27 November 2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_McConnell" title="Jack McConnell">Jack McConnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nicola Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">John Swinney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Premierships</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Donald_Dewar" class="mw-redirect" title="Premiership of Donald Dewar">Dewar</a> (1999–2000)</li> <li><a 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Maryhill and Springburn (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a> (SNP, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Pollok_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Pollok (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Pollok</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_McKee" title="Ivan McKee">Ivan McKee</a> (SNP, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Provan_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Provan (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Provan</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mason_(Scottish_politician)" title="John Mason (Scottish politician)">John Mason</a> (Independent, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Shettleston_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Shettleston</a>)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nicola Sturgeon</a> (SNP, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Southside_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Southside (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Southside</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Haughey" title="Clare Haughey">Clare Haughey</a> (SNP, <a href="/wiki/Rutherglen_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rutherglen (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Rutherglen</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/6th_Scottish_Parliament" title="6th Scottish Parliament">Additional members</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pam_Duncan-Glancy" title="Pam Duncan-Glancy">Pam Duncan-Glancy</a> (Lab)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandesh_Gulhane" title="Sandesh Gulhane">Sandesh Gulhane</a> (Con)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Harvie" title="Patrick Harvie">Patrick Harvie</a> (Green)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_McNeill" title="Pauline McNeill">Pauline McNeill</a> (Lab)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anas_Sarwar" title="Anas Sarwar">Anas Sarwar</a> (Lab)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Sweeney" title="Paul Sweeney">Paul Sweeney</a> (Lab)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Wells_(politician)" title="Annie Wells (politician)">Annie Wells</a> (Con)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> (9 seats), <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour" title="Scottish Labour">Labour</a> (4 seats), <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> (2 seats), <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Greens</a> (1 seat)</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Scottish_National_Party313" style="padding:3px"><table 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MacEwen">MacEwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dewar_Gibb" title="Andrew Dewar Gibb">Gibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Power_(Scottish_politician)" title="William Power (Scottish politician)">Power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Young_(classicist)" title="Douglas Young (classicist)">Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Watson_(politician)" title="Bruce Watson (politician)">Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_McIntyre_(politician)" title="Robert McIntyre (politician)">McIntyre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Halliday" title="Jimmy Halliday">Halliday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Donaldson" title="Arthur Donaldson">Donaldson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wolfe_(politician)" title="Billy Wolfe (politician)">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">Swinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Yousaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">Swinney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Depute leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Milne" title="Sandy Milne">Milne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wolfe_(politician)" title="Billy Wolfe (politician)">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Leslie_(politician)" title="George Leslie (politician)">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Henderson_(SNP_politician)" title="Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_MacDonald" title="Margo MacDonald">MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Henderson_(SNP_politician)" title="Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Fairlie_(politician,_born_1940)" title="Jim Fairlie (politician, born 1940)">Fairlie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Ewing" title="Margaret Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alasdair_Morgan" title="Alasdair Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Sillars" title="Jim Sillars">Sillars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allan_Macartney" title="Allan Macartney">Macartney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">Swinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roseanna_Cunningham" title="Roseanna Cunningham">Cunningham</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_Hosie" title="Stewart Hosie">Hosie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_Robertson" title="Angus Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Brown_(Scottish_politician)" title="Keith Brown (Scottish politician)">Brown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Parliamentary leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">Swinney</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Yousaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">Swinney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Stewart_(Scottish_politician)" title="Donald Stewart (Scottish politician)">Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Ewing" title="Margaret Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alasdair_Morgan" title="Alasdair Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_Robertson" title="Angus Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Blackford" title="Ian Blackford">Blackford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Flynn" title="Stephen Flynn">Flynn</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Presidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cunninghame_Graham" title="Cunninghame Graham">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Muirhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Gibson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Tom Gibson (Scottish politician)">Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_McIntyre_(politician)" title="Robert McIntyre (politician)">McIntyre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wolfe_(politician)" title="Billy Wolfe (politician)">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Stewart_(Scottish_politician)" title="Donald Stewart (Scottish politician)">Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winnie_Ewing" title="Winnie Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Hudghton" title="Ian Hudghton">Hudghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Russell_(Scottish_politician)" title="Michael Russell (Scottish politician)">Russell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Leadership elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Leader</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1967_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1967 Scottish National Party leadership election">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1969 Scottish National Party leadership election">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1979 Scottish National Party leadership election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Scottish National Party leadership election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2000 Scottish National Party leadership election">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2003 Scottish National Party leadership election">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2004 Scottish National Party leadership election">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2024 Scottish National Party leadership election">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Depute leader</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Scottish_National_Party_depute_leadership_election" title="2016 Scottish National Party depute leadership election">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Scottish_National_Party_depute_leadership_election" title="2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election">2018</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Administrations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Salmond_government" title="First Salmond government">Salmond I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Salmond_government" title="Second Salmond government">Salmond II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Sturgeon_government" title="First Sturgeon government">Sturgeon I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sturgeon_government" title="Second Sturgeon government">Sturgeon II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Sturgeon_government" title="Third Sturgeon government">Sturgeon III</a></li> <li><a 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members of the Scottish Parliament">Scottish National Party MSPs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_National_Party_MPs" title="List of Scottish National Party MPs">Scottish National Party MPs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Scottish_government_crisis" title="2024 Scottish government crisis">2024 Scottish government crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Scottish_National_Party" title="Category:Scottish National Party">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Scotland" title="Politics of Scotland">Politics of Scotland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Junior ministers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Adam" title="George Adam">George Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Arthur_(Scottish_politician)" title="Tom Arthur (Scottish politician)">Tom Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siobhian_Brown" title="Siobhian Brown">Siobhian Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Dey" title="Graeme Dey">Graeme Dey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalie_Don" title="Natalie Don">Natalie Don</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Fairlie_(MSP)" title="Jim Fairlie (MSP)">Jim Fairlie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_FitzPatrick" title="Joe FitzPatrick">Joe FitzPatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Hepburn" title="Jamie Hepburn">Jamie Hepburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lochhead" title="Richard Lochhead">Richard Lochhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillian_Martin" title="Gillian Martin">Gillian Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christina_McKelvie" title="Christina McKelvie">Christina McKelvie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McLennan" title="Paul McLennan">Paul McLennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenni_Minto" title="Jenni Minto">Jenni Minto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Roddick" title="Emma Roddick">Emma Roddick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaukab_Stewart" title="Kaukab Stewart">Kaukab Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maree_Todd" title="Maree Todd">Maree Todd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="color:black; background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Backbench</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Adam" title="Karen Adam">Karen Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Adamson" title="Clare Adamson">Clare Adamson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alasdair_Allan" title="Alasdair Allan">Alasdair Allan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Beattie" title="Colin Beattie">Colin Beattie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Brown_(Scottish_politician)" title="Keith Brown (Scottish politician)">Keith Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Callaghan" title="Stephanie Callaghan">Stephanie Callaghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Coffey" title="Willie Coffey">Willie Coffey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Doris" title="Bob Doris">Bob Doris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dornan" title="James Dornan">James Dornan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Dunbar" title="Jackie Dunbar">Jackie Dunbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annabelle_Ewing" title="Annabelle Ewing">Annabelle Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fergus_Ewing" title="Fergus Ewing">Fergus Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Gibson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Kenneth Gibson (Scottish politician)">Kenneth Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christine_Grahame" title="Christine Grahame">Christine Grahame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Harper" title="Emma Harper">Emma Harper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Haughey" title="Clare Haughey">Clare Haughey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Kidd" title="Bill Kidd">Bill Kidd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_MacDonald_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon MacDonald (Scottish politician)">Gordon MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulton_MacGregor" title="Fulton MacGregor">Fulton MacGregor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rona_Mackay" title="Rona Mackay">Rona Mackay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Macpherson_(politician)" title="Ben Macpherson (politician)">Ben Macpherson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Maguire" title="Ruth Maguire">Ruth Maguire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mason_(Scottish_politician)" title="John Mason (Scottish politician)">John Mason</a> (suspended) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Matheson_(politician)" title="Michael Matheson (politician)">Michael Matheson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_McKee" title="Ivan McKee">Ivan McKee</a></li> <li><a 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of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">Statistics</a></li> <li>Timeline <ul><li>2020 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(January%E2%80%93June_2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (January–June 2020)">January–June</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(July%E2%80%93December_2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (July–December 2020)">July–December</a></li></ul></li> <li>2021 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(January%E2%80%93June_2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (January–June 2021)">January–June</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(July%E2%80%93December_2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (July–December 2021)">July–December</a></li></ul></li> <li>2022 <ul><li><a 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class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England" title="COVID-19 pandemic in England">England</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_London" title="COVID-19 pandemic in London">London</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Northern_Ireland" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Wales" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Wales">Wales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Crown_Dependencies" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Crown Dependencies">Crown Dependencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Guernsey" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Isle_of_Man" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Jersey" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Jersey">Jersey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_British_Overseas_Territories" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the British Overseas Territories">Overseas Territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Akrotiri and Dhekelia">Akrotiri and Dhekelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Anguilla" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Anguilla">Anguilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Bermuda" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Bermuda">Bermuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_British_Indian_Ocean_Territory" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the British Indian Ocean Territory">British Indian Ocean Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_British_Virgin_Islands" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Cayman_Islands" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Falkland_Islands" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Gibraltar" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Montserrat" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Montserrat">Montserrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Pitcairn_Islands" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Impact</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">Economy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%93present_United_Kingdom_cost-of-living_crisis" title="2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis">Cost-of-living crisis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_education_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United Kingdom">Education</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_United_Kingdom_school_exam_grading_controversy" title="2020 United Kingdom school exam grading controversy">Exam grading controversy</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Social_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clap_for_Our_Carers" title="Clap for Our Carers">Clap for Our Carers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_protests_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 protests in the United Kingdom">Protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thank_You_NHS" title="Thank You NHS">Thank You NHS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_2.6_Challenge" title="The 2.6 Challenge">The 2.6 Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Day_of_Reflection" title="National Day of Reflection">National Day of Reflection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Political_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic#United_Kingdom" title="Political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beergate" title="Beergate">Beergate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID_Recovery_Group" title="COVID Recovery Group">COVID Recovery Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominic_Cummings_scandal" title="Dominic Cummings scandal">Dominic Cummings scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensill_scandal" title="Greensill scandal">Greensill scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic#Brexit" title="Political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic">Impact on Brexit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Research_Group" title="Northern Research Group">Northern Research Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partygate" title="Partygate">Partygate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commons_Privileges_Committee_investigation_into_Boris_Johnson" title="Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson">Privileges Committee investigation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_COVID-19_Inquiry" title="UK COVID-19 Inquiry">Public inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_COVID-19_Inquiry" title="Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry">Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virtual_House_of_Commons" title="Virtual House of Commons">Virtual House of Commons</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Science and healthcare</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antivirals_Taskforce_(UK)" title="Antivirals Taskforce (UK)">Antiviral Taskforce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_Coronavirus_Cancer_Monitoring_Project" title="UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project">Cancer Monitoring Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_Genomics_UK_Consortium" title="COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium">COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID_Symptom_Study" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID Symptom Study">COVID Symptom Study</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_passports_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 passports in the United Kingdom">COVID passports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial" title="RECOVERY Trial">RECOVERY Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PANORAMIC_trial" title="PANORAMIC trial">PANORAMIC trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGILE" title="AGILE">AGILE</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_hospitals_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom">Temporary hospitals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>England <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Nightingale_Hospital_Birmingham" title="NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham">Birmingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Nightingale_Hospital_Yorkshire_and_the_Humber" title="NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber">Harrogate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Nightingale_Hospital_London" title="NHS Nightingale Hospital London">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Nightingale_Hospital_North_West" title="NHS Nightingale Hospital North West">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Nightingale_Hospital_North_East" title="NHS Nightingale Hospital North East">Washington</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Louisa_Jordan" title="NHS Louisa Jordan">Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon%27s_Heart_Hospital" title="Dragon's Heart Hospital">Cardiff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_Sports_Park#Florence_Nightingale_Field_Hospital" title="Europa Sports Park">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Jersey#Nightingale_hospital" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Jersey">Jersey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_testing_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19 testing in the United Kingdom">Testing programme</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NHS_COVID-19" title="NHS COVID-19">NHS COVID-19 app</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Test_and_Trace" title="NHS Test and Trace">NHS Test and Trace</a> (England)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Test,_Trace,_Protect" title="Test, Trace, Protect">Test, Trace, Protect</a> (Wales)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Moonshot" title="Operation Moonshot">Operation Moonshot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Test_to_Release" title="Test to Release">Test to Release</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_Rapid_Test_Consortium" title="UK Rapid Test Consortium">UK Rapid Test Consortium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom">Vaccination programme</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine" title="Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine">Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Commission%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine_dispute" title="European Commission–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine dispute">European Commission–AstraZeneca dispute</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaccines_Manufacturing_and_Innovation_Centre" title="Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre">Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaccine_Taskforce" title="Vaccine Taskforce">Taskforce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_of_State_for_COVID-19_Vaccine_Deployment" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment">Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_legislation_connected_with_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="United Kingdom legislation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic">Legislation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Public_Health_(Control_of_Disease)_Act_1984" title="Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984">Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_United_Kingdom_budget" title="2020 United Kingdom budget">2020 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contingencies_Fund_Act_2020" title="Contingencies Fund Act 2020">Contingencies Fund Act 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contingencies_Fund_Act_2021" title="Contingencies Fund Act 2021">Contingencies Fund Act 2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2020_United_Kingdom_summer_statement" title="July 2020 United Kingdom summer statement">Coronavirus mini-budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2020_United_Kingdom_Winter_Economy_Plan" title="September 2020 United Kingdom Winter Economy Plan">Winter Economy Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamp_Duty_Land_Tax_(Temporary_Relief)_Act_2020" title="Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2020">Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_Insolvency_and_Governance_Act_2020" title="Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020">Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Business_and_Planning_Act_2020" title="Business and Planning Act 2020">Business and Planning Act 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nightingale_Court" title="Nightingale Court">Nightingale Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_Recovery_Fund" title="Culture Recovery Fund">Culture Recovery Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2021_United_Kingdom_budget" title="March 2021 United Kingdom budget">2021 budget</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Revoked</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Business_Closure)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (England) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_local_lockdown_regulations_in_England" title="COVID-19 local lockdown regulations in England">COVID-19 local lockdown regulations in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_COVID-19_tier_regulations_in_England" title="First COVID-19 tier regulations in England">First COVID-19 tier regulations in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(England)_(No._4)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(All_Tiers)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020">Coronavirus, Restrictions (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_International_Travel)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020">Coronavirus, International Travel (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Wearing_of_Face_Coverings_on_Public_Transport)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020">Face Coverings on Public Transport (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Wearing_of_Face_Coverings_in_a_Relevant_Place)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 2020">Face Coverings in a Relevant Place (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(Steps)_(England)_Regulations_2021" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021">Coronavirus, Restrictions (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(Local_Authority_Enforcement_Powers_and_Amendment)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Local Authority Enforcement Powers and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020">Coronavirus, Restrictions (Local Authority Enforcement...) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(England)_(No._3)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(Self-Isolation)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_International_Travel_and_Operator_Liability)_(England)_Regulations_2021" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021">Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability (England) Regulations 2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coronavirus_Act_2020" title="Coronavirus Act 2020">Coronavirus Act 2020</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Expired or spent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(No._2)_(England)_Regulations_2020" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020">Coronavirus, Restrictions (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Wearing_of_Face_Coverings)_(England)_Regulations_2021" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(Entry_to_Venues_and_Events)_(England)_Regulations_2021" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Entry to Venues and Events) (England) Regulations 2021">Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Entry to Venues and Events) (England) Regulations 2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Protection_(Coronavirus,_Restrictions)_(All_Tiers_and_Self-Isolation)_(England)_(Amendment)_Regulations_2021" title="Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021">Coronavirus, Restrictions (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_responses_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="United Kingdom responses to the COVID-19 pandemic">Responses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/British_government_response_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic">Government</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coronavirus_Job_Retention_Scheme" title="Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme">Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Controversies_regarding_COVID-19_contracts_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Controversies regarding COVID-19 contracts in the United Kingdom">Contract controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lockdown_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom">Lockdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eat_Out_to_Help_Out" title="Eat Out to Help Out">Eat Out to Help Out</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everyone_In" title="Everyone In">Everyone In</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Travel_Taskforce" title="Global Travel Taskforce">Global Travel Taskforce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Tutoring_Programme" title="National Tutoring Programme">National Tutoring Programme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pick_for_Britain" title="Pick for Britain">Pick for Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Birch" title="Project Birch">Project Birch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Can_you_look_them_in_the_eyes%3F" title="Can you look them in the eyes?">Can you look them in the eyes?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_for_Covid_Recovery" title="Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery">Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery</a> (Scotland)</li> <li>Pre-pandemic exercises <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exercise_Cygnus" title="Exercise Cygnus">Exercise Cygnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coughs_and_sneezes_spread_diseases" title="Coughs and sneezes spread diseases">Coughs and sneezes spread diseases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catch_It,_Bin_It,_Kill_It" title="Catch It, Bin It, Kill It">Catch It, Bin It, Kill It</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Rescript" title="Operation Rescript">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Broadshare" title="Operation Broadshare">Overseas territories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Timelines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>England <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_England_(January%E2%80%93June_2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (January–June 2020)">January–June 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_England_(July%E2%80%93December_2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (July–December 2020)">July–December 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_England_(2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (2021)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_England_(2022)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (2022)">2022</a></li></ul></li> <li>Northern Ireland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Northern_Ireland_(2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland (2020)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Northern_Ireland_(2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland (2021)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Northern_Ireland_(2022)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland (2022)">2022</a></li></ul></li> <li>Scotland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland_(2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2020)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland_(2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2021)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Scotland_(2022)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2022)">2022</a></li></ul></li> <li>Wales <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Wales_(2020)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales (2020)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Wales_(2021)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales (2021)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Wales_(2022)" title="Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales (2022)">2022</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Advisory bodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_COVID-19_Response_Team" title="Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team">Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_SAGE" title="Independent SAGE">Independent SAGE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Biosecurity_Centre" title="Joint Biosecurity Centre">Joint Biosecurity Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Committee_on_Vaccination_and_Immunisation" title="Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation">Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_and_Emerging_Respiratory_Virus_Threats_Advisory_Group" title="New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group">New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_Advisory_Group_for_Emergencies" title="Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies">Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Key people</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Fenton" title="Kevin Fenton">Kevin Fenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)" title="Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist)">Neil Ferguson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Hancock" title="Matt Hancock">Matt Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dido_Harding" title="Dido Harding">Dido Harding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Harries" title="Jenny Harries">Jenny Harries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sajid_Javid" title="Sajid Javid">Sajid Javid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wei_Shen_Lim" title="Wei Shen Lim">Wei Shen Lim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Prosser" title="Phil Prosser">Phil Prosser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_Raine" title="June Raine">June Raine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maggie_Throup" title="Maggie Throup">Maggie Throup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Vallance" title="Patrick Vallance">Patrick Vallance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Van-Tam" title="Jonathan Van-Tam">Jonathan Van-Tam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Whitty" title="Chris Whitty">Chris Whitty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi" title="Nadhim Zahawi">Nadhim Zahawi</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">England</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Powis" title="Stephen Powis">Stephen Powis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amanda_Pritchard" title="Amanda Pritchard">Amanda Pritchard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Stevens" title="Simon Stevens">Simon Stevens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northern Ireland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arlene_Foster" title="Arlene Foster">Arlene Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Givan" title="Paul Givan">Paul Givan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_McArdle" title="Charlotte McArdle">Charlotte McArdle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_McBride_(doctor)" title="Michael McBride (doctor)">Michael McBride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_O%27Neill" title="Michelle O'Neill">Michelle O'Neill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Swann" title="Robin Swann">Robin Swann</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scotland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Calderwood" title="Catherine Calderwood">Catherine Calderwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_FitzPatrick" title="Joe FitzPatrick">Joe FitzPatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeane_Freeman" title="Jeane Freeman">Jeane Freeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Leitch" title="Jason Leitch">Jason Leitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Smith" title="Gregor Smith">Gregor Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Sridhar" title="Devi Sridhar">Devi Sridhar</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nicola Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Swinney" title="John Swinney">John Swinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humza_Yousaf" title="Humza Yousaf">Humza Yousaf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Wales</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Atherton" title="Frank Atherton">Frank Atherton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Drakeford" title="Mark Drakeford">Mark Drakeford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Gething" title="Vaughan Gething">Vaughan Gething</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eluned_Morgan" title="Eluned Morgan">Eluned Morgan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media depictions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Can_You_Hear_Me%3F_(Doctors)" title="Can You Hear Me? (Doctors)">"Can You Hear Me" (Doctors)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casualty_(series_35)" class="mw-redirect" title="Casualty (series 35)">Casualty (series 35)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emergency_State_(book)" title="Emergency State (book)">Emergency State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Failures_of_State" title="Failures of State">Failures of State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson%27s_Art_Club" title="Grayson's Art Club">Grayson's Art Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_(2021_television_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Help (2021 television film)">Help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hold_Still:_A_Portrait_of_Our_Nation_in_2020" title="Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020">Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isolation_Stories" title="Isolation Stories">Isolation Stories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locked_Down_(film)" title="Locked Down (film)">Locked Down</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockdown_Files" title="Lockdown Files">Lockdown Files</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandemic_Diaries" title="Pandemic Diaries">Pandemic Diaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partygate_(TV_drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Partygate (TV drama)">Partygate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preventable_(book)" title="Preventable (book)">Preventable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staged" title="Staged">Staged</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_England_(TV_series)" title="This England (TV series)">This England</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Tom_Moore" title="Captain Tom Moore">Captain Tom Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coronavirus_Tech_Handbook" title="Coronavirus Tech Handbook">Coronavirus Tech Handbook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covid-19_Bereaved_Families_for_Justice" title="Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice">COVID-19 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