‘Chris Guthrie spoke to, and helped me make sense of, the girl I was,” Nicola Sturgeon said of the heroine in her all-time favourite novel Sunset Song. Now, as the first minister rounds off this phase of her own Scots Quair, a new chapter begins this week at Holyrood.
In the same sense that Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s protagonist is haunted by duality, Nicola’s time in frontline politics been marked by conflict and contradictions in her character and in her politics. The shy wee girl from Ayrshire who hid under the table with a book grew up to rule the Holyrood bullring with a matador’s command; a cautious decision maker, who displayed canny confidence at the helm. Not a people person, but adept at turning
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