Sturgeon says goodbye and what it means for Scotland
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Well, if there was any danger of recess getting boring, Nicola Sturgeon had other ideas. Just as Chopper was taking a well-earned holiday, the First Minister shocked Scotland and the United Kingdom by resigning after eight years in the job. So where does this leave Scotland and the future of the union, and what will be the ripple effect on Westminster?
The Telegraph's Gordon Rayner and Alan Cochrane head to the studio to discuss just that, whether Sturgeon will end up backseat driving for the new leader of the SNP and if this could be the end of indyref2.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the problems for the new leader, maybe like when John Major became the Tory leader, |
| 0:06.0 | is that she might be the backseat driver just as Maggie Thatcher was after she resigned the premiership. |
| 0:12.0 | I would guess that Sturgeon will not be an asset to whoever wins the leadership. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's politics. |
| 0:22.8 | Now if you're wide awake you'll have noticed that I'm not Christopher Hope. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Gordon Rayner, Associate Editor at the Telegraph. |
| 0:29.2 | Chris is having a well-on break, so I'm taking the reins this week after we had a shock resignation. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes, Nicholas Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, announced her resignation yesterday, |
| 0:39.8 | so I thought I'd sit down with my colleague Alan Cochran, our chief commentator on Scottish politics, to hear his thoughts. |
| 0:47.0 | So, Alan, it's been a monumental week really for Scottish politics in a nut |
| 0:53.2 | so why did Nicholas Sturgeon quit? She quit because a combination of |
| 0:58.0 | voter hostility and her own parties angst about this ridiculous move of ours to force through an amazing |
| 1:07.5 | a change in the way we live in the social world to allow the trans issue to take over what had been our party's main priority and |
| 1:17.5 | also that of our supporters, i.e. independence. |
| 1:20.1 | It went on at the back burner burner which drove her activist mad and also offended the well |
| 1:28.4 | it offended the sensitivities of Scottish public opinion they They didn't understand why 16 year olds could |
| 1:36.6 | be allowed to change their gender simply by saying so and then that ballooned into |
| 1:40.9 | an absolutely horrendous story of a double rapist who had |
| 1:44.8 | decided after committing these offenses that he'd rather be a woman. He was |
| 1:49.0 | remandering custody to an all-female prison and then we had the absolutely nutty no worse than that wasn't |
| 1:56.2 | nutty it was disgraceful display of Nicholas Sturgeon and her justice minister |
| 2:01.1 | arguing about whether this person or this individual was a woman or a man. |
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