Nicola Sturgeon

Dans une déclaration à la presse, elle a précisé qu'elle resterait à la tête du gouvernement jusqu'à ce qu'une personne soit élue au sein du Parti national ...

« Je lui souhaite le meilleur pour la suite », a ajouté le leader conservateur. Son combat pour un nouveau référendum d’indépendance lui a permis de rester longtemps populaire auprès des Ecossais, mais elle a été fragilisée par l’adoption, en décembre, d’une loi très controversée facilitant la transition de genre, permise dès 16 ans et sans avis médical. « Je suis un être humain, a expliqué la dirigeante écossaise. Elle a, entre autres, cité les changements dans sa famille et les obsèques d’un proche, la difficulté de pouvoir « prendre un café avec un ami, ou sortir, seule, pour une marche » comme quelques-unes des raisons à l’origine de sa décision. Le premier ministre britannique, Rishi Sunak, a remercié la dirigeante écossaise pour son « long service ». La première ministre écossaise, Nicola Sturgeon, a annoncé sa démission mercredi 15 février, après huit années au pouvoir.

First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced her intention to resign from her position as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National ...

Sturgeon is the first woman to serve as First Minister of Scotland, and her resignation marks the end of an era for Scottish politics. During her time as First Minister, Sturgeon has been a strong voice for Scottish independence and has worked to strengthen Scotland's economy and social services. Sturgeon has served in these roles for over eight years and was previously Deputy First Minister for the best part of eight years before that.

Nicola Sturgeon, who has had the longest tenure of any Scottish first minister, announced her plans to resign on Wednesday, standing down with no obvious ...

My thanks go to @NicolaSturgeon for her long-standing service. But, he said, the independence movement has "been left with no clear strategy." Sturgeon said Wednesday she believed in the fight for independence with "every fibre of my being" and vowed to continue to champion that cause. Sturgeon said she had wrestled with the decision with "oscillating levels of intensity" for several weeks and denied that it was a "reaction to short-term pressures" and battles inherent in the position. Sturgeon said the weight of making decisions that affected the lives and freedoms of citizens during the pandemic had taken a cumulative toll, citing an "intensity and brutality" to reactions to government policy in the age of social media. "In my head and in my heart, I know that time is now, that is right for me, for my party and my country," she said at a news conference in Edinburgh.

Sturgeon's announcement caught political observers by surprise and prompted comparisons to Jacinda Ardern's recent sudden resignation as New Zealand's ...

“If the question is, can I battle on for another few months, then the answer is yes, of course I can,” she said. Sturgeon said she had been “wrestling” with whether it was time step down for a number of weeks. The inmate was transferred to a men’s prison after being assessed by prison authorities. Geez,” tweeted SNP lawmaker Angus MacNeil, referring to the [resignation last month of New Zealand’s prime minister](https://globalnews.ca/news/9420564/new-zealand-ardern-resigns/). The first female leader of Scotland’s devolved government, Sturgeon said she planned to remain in office until the SNP elects a new leader. That raised concerns that Sturgeon’s position on transgender rights could undermine support for independence, the SNP’s overarching goal. Scotland is part of the U.K. “In my head and in my heart I know that time is now,” she said. government has refused to allow a second referendum. Sturgeon, 52, has led Scotland since 2014, when Scots narrowly voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. The U.K. [Nicola Sturgeon](https://globalnews.ca/tag/nicola-sturgeon) said Wednesday that she plans to step down after more than eight years in office, amid criticism of her drive to expand transgender rights and her strategy for achieving independence from the United Kingdom.

Jane Barlow Pool Agence France-Presse «Dans ma tête et dans mon coeur, je sais que le moment est venu, que c'est le bon moment pour moi, pour mon parti et pour ...

Le premier ministre conservateur britannique, Rishi Sunak, a sobrement réagi à sa démission en la remerciant pour son « long service ». Mais le gouvernement britannique reste fermement opposé au nouveau vote qu’elle réclame, conforté récemment par la Cour suprême britannique, et Nicola Sturgeon semblait manquer d’options pour relancer sa campagne. « Mais avec le temps, j’aurais eu de moins en moins d’énergie pour mon travail, et je ne peux le faire qu’à 100 %. Longtemps extrêmement populaire, Nicola Sturgeon a été récemment fragilisée par une loi controversée permettant le changement de genre dès 16 ans et sans avis médical. « Ce travail est un privilège, mais est aussi très difficile », a souligné celle qui disait encore en janvier, après la démission de la première ministre néo-zélandaise Jacinda Ardern, avoir pour sa part « plein d’énergie ». Le départ de Nicola Sturgeon, première femme à diriger l’Écosse, constitue un choc dans la vie politique britannique.

Visiblement émue, la voix cassée, la dirigeante de 52 ans, qui faisait trembler le gouvernement britannique en portant inlassablement la cause indépendantiste, ...

Le premier ministre conservateur Rishi Sunak a sobrement réagi à sa démission en la remerciant pour son « long service ». Mais le gouvernement britannique reste fermement opposé au nouveau vote qu’elle réclame, conforté récemment par la Cour suprême britannique et Nicola Sturgeon semblait manquer d’option pour relancer sa campagne. Le départ de Nicola Sturgeon, première femme à diriger l’Écosse, constitue un choc pour la vie politique britannique.

LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday announced her intention to resign, saying that part of serving in politics is knowing ...

Some members of the SNP have criticized Sturgeon for saying she would make the next Scottish parliament election a de facto referendum on independence. Sturgeon, 52, has led Scotland since 2014, when Scots narrowly voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. “In my head and in my heart I know that time is now," she told reporters.

Nicolas Sturgeon a annoncé sa démission lors d'une conférence de presse mercredi 15 janvier. La première ministre écossaise quittera son poste une fois son ...

Mais la prochaine campagne pour l’élection de son successeur devrait servir de débat sur la stratégie à tenir. Nicolas Sturgeon a réitéré sa volonté de se servir de la prochaine élection générale comme d’un référendum sur l’indépendance, mais cet avis est loin d’être partagé par les siens. Nicola Sturgeon a simplement prévenu qu’elle assurerait la transition, le temps de se trouver un successeur. Mais je sais qu’avec le temps j’aurais de moins en moins d’énergie à consacrer à ce travail et je ne peux le faire qu’à 100 %. Comme Jacinda Ardern, elle a expliqué ressentir une forme de lassitude : «Je me lève le matin et j’arrive généralement à me convaincre que j’ai ce qu’il faut en moi pour continuer à ce poste. « Poursuivre à mon poste est-il bon pour mon pays, mon parti et la cause de l’indépendance, à laquelle j’ai dévoué ma vie ?

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon resigned after more than eight years as head of the country's government and independence movement in a surprise ...

Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait ...

Elle a fait face à des mois de controverse sur une loi qui simplifie le changement de sexe sur les documents officiels. Le projet de loi permettrait aux personnes âgées de 16 ans ou plus en Écosse de changer la désignation de genre sur leurs documents d’identité par autodéclaration. Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait une grave erreur en opposant son veto au projet de loi sur la réforme de la reconnaissance du genre.

LONDON (AP) — Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, the face of her country's independence movement for eight years, has announced her intention to resign, ...

Some members of the SNP have criticized Sturgeon for saying she would make the next Scottish parliament election a de facto referendum on independence. Sturgeon, 52, has led Scotland since 2014, when Scots narrowly voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. “In my head and in my heart I know that time is now," she told reporters.

À la surprise générale, la première ministre écossaise, Nicola Sturgeon, a annoncé sa démission mercredi après huit ans au pouvoir.

Le premier ministre conservateur Rishi Sunak a sobrement réagi à sa démission en la remerciant pour son «long service» et lui souhaitant «le meilleur pour la suite». Les Écossais avaient alors voté à 55% en faveur d'un maintien au sein du Royaume-Uni. «J'aurais pu faire quelques mois de plus, peut-être six mois, un an», a-t-elle estimé, soulignant avoir passé plus de quinze ans à des postes à responsabilité. «Ce travail est un privilège, mais aussi très difficile», a-t-elle souligné. Son ministre pour l'Écosse Alister Jack a salué «une redoutable femme politique», mais appelé Édimbourg à profiter de son départ pour «abandonner son obsession pour l'indépendance, source de division». «Je suis un être humain», a expliqué celle qui disait encore en janvier, après la démission de la première ministre néo-zélandaise Jacinda Ardern, avoir «plein d'énergie».

Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait ...

Elle a fait face à des mois de controverse sur une loi qui simplifie le changement de sexe sur les documents officiels. Le projet de loi permettrait aux personnes âgées de 16 ans ou plus en Écosse de changer la désignation de genre sur leurs documents d’identité par autodéclaration. Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait une grave erreur en opposant son veto au projet de loi sur la réforme de la reconnaissance du genre.

A surprise announcement by Nicola Sturgeon that she plans to resign as Scotland's First Minister has thrown the Scottish independence movement into turmoil ...

Salmon has been especially critical of Ms. Sturgeon’s resignation will be a blow to the independence movement. “That is why I have always been clear that the decision must be taken by the SNP collectively, not by me alone.” There have been grumblings within the SNP about Ms. “The previously accepted referendum route has been closed and the de facto referendum-election proposal is now, at best, up in the air.” Sturgeon decried the ruling as an affront to democracy and vowed to use the next U.K. She began calling for a second vote on independence in 2016 after the U.K.-wide referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union. The defeat led to the resignation of then SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond; Ms. She played a leading role in the 2014 referendum on independence which the Yes side lost by a margin of 55 per cent to 45 per cent. “Maybe I want to spend a bit of time on Nicola Sturgeon the human being. She plans to stay on until a new leader is chosen by party members in the next couple of months. Sturgeon, 52, announced on Wednesday that she will step down as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party after eight years in office.

Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait ...

Elle a fait face à des mois de controverse sur une loi qui simplifie le changement de sexe sur les documents officiels. Le projet de loi permettrait aux personnes âgées de 16 ans ou plus en Écosse de changer la désignation de genre sur leurs documents d’identité par autodéclaration. Elle a juré de poursuivre le gouvernement britannique en justice pour sa décision de bloquer la loi et a fait valoir que le gouvernement conservateur faisait une grave erreur en opposant son veto au projet de loi sur la réforme de la reconnaissance du genre.

Dismissing good-faith inquiries about a gender self-identification law drained Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon's authority.

[own lies](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/boris-johnson-supporters-christopher-pincher-resign/661504/) and rule-breaking; and the hopeless Liz Truss, [outlived by a lettuce](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/why-liz-truss-resigned-britain-political-instability/671805/). One of the SNP’s rising stars, [Ash Regan](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-minister-ash-regan-resigns-28340482), resigned from government rather than vote for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. [mother](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/isla-brysons-mother-says-rapist-should-never-have-been-held-in-womens-prison-w2wpxgqtl) and [estranged wife](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10211873/isla-bryson-ex-wife-support-mens-jail-demand/) both expressed doubts that the offender’s transgender identification was genuine. [warned](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/03/snp-accused-ignoring-feminist-religious-groups-gender-reform/) against eliminating the need for a gender-dysphoria diagnosis in order to legally change gender. “My husband is an individual and he will take decisions about what he does with resources that belong to him,” she argued earlier this month—a ludicrous argument from the leader of the party involved. “Never once did he say anything to me about feeling he was in the wrong body or anything,” Shonna Graham, Bryson’s wife, [told the Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11676069/Estranged-wife-transgender-rapist-Isla-Bryson-warns-never-stop.html). And she ignored opposition lawmakers who tried to [amend](https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/22/scottish-parliament-votes-to-approve-controversial-gender-identity-law) the bill to remove the ability of those convicted of sex crimes to change their legal gender. But what became clear during the passage of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill was that Sturgeon had adopted a bullheaded, crusading posture and was not interested in dissent or even scrutiny. The troublesome coziness of the pro-independence Scottish National Party—whose chief executive is her husband, Peter Murrell—was being [openly questioned](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11753779/Nicola-Sturgeon-dodges-questions-SNP-CEO-husband-Peter-Murrell-quits-Minister.html) at last. During interviews, reporters had begun to [savage](https://www.itv.com/watch/news/confusion-from-nicola-sturgeon-over-trans-prison-row/5vts2jr) Sturgeon with the kind of brutality that suggested she was politically doomed. Her stance on the issue was an echo of the worst parts of her independence messaging, which implied that politics under the SNP was somehow loftier, purer, and more principled than that practiced elsewhere. This proposed law would have reduced the waiting period for adults to change their legal gender from two years to three months and removed the need for a medical diagnosis of dysphoria—meaning that gender would ultimately be a matter of self-identification.

Back then it was not the pro-independence SNP which dominated Scottish politics but Labour. The party had built a power base which helped propel Tony Blair and ...

In the early days of her leadership, though, it had seemed Ms Sturgeon could walk on water. Even so, it is a headache for her successor. And yet she was ultimately unable to deliver that vote. Many of the new members were impatient — demanding another crack at independence immediately. When, within hours, Mr Salmond resigned there was no doubt about the identity of his successor and no doubt that she represented continuity in the party. But the episode also had a political effect, with Mr Salmond ultimately creating a rival party, Alba. There were revelations about late night drinking with female staff members in the bedroom of the first minister's official residence, Bute House. Governing is hard. The trial was bruising for all involved. That relationship would break down in spectacular fashion once Mr Salmond was charged with sexual assault and harassment. The popularity of the first woman to hold the job of first minister was at times extraordinary. Although his outfit did not break through with the electorate, it was at times a thorn in the side of his successor.

Andy Murray, futur premier ministre d'Écosse ? Après la démission surprise de Nicola Sturgeon mercredi, le tennisman a ironisé sur Twitter sur son possible ...

« J’aurais pu faire quelques mois de plus, peut-être six mois, un an », a-t-elle estimé. « Un poste vacant intéressant. Après la démission surprise de Nicola Sturgeon mercredi, le tennisman a ironisé sur Twitter sur son possible avenir en politique, une perspective que la dirigeante a soutenue avec humour.

She might have been an election winner but in the end the Scottish leader was undone by her own poor judgment.

It was not, they told Sturgeon, in the power of any single politician to define the terms of a referendum. A bill that would allow those wishing to change their legal sex through a simple process of self-identification passed with the support of members of all parties in the Scottish parliament last December. As scandal erupted, Sturgeon intervened and Bryson was sent to a male facility. The first minister could promise referendums every day of the week and twice on Sundays but the power to run a question on the constitution lies firmly in Westminster. government would insist there had been no legitimate referendum; on the other hand, if the pro-independence parties came up short, London’s response would be that Sturgeon had had her second referendum and had lost for a second time. If a majority of Scots backed pro-independence parties — the SNP, the Scottish Greens, and Alex Salmond’s Alba — she would take this as an instruction to begin secession talks with the prime minister of the day. After describing this ruling as evidence Scottish democracy was being denied, Sturgeon declared her intention to treat the next U.K. Then came a series of developments — the election of a majority Conservative government at Westminster in 2015, victory for the Brexit campaign in the following year’s referendum on membership of the European Union (while the majority of Scots backed remain), the installation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019 — each of which Sturgeon declared would tip support for independence. In fact, for all her many triumphs, Sturgeon — through a series of poor judgment calls — is the architect of her own downfall. Rather than explaining that winning the opportunity to stage a second referendum would be incredibly difficult, she led her followers to believe the prize was within grasp. Here, after all, is the most successful politician of her generation, who has led the SNP to election success after election success. As membership of the SNP soared — from 25,000 to more than 130,000 — she decided not to be fully frank with these enthusiastic new supporters.

Nicola Sturgeon quittera ses fonctions dès qu'un successeur lui sera trouvé à la tête du SNP.

Londres a indiqué vouloir s'y opposer et la mesure a été critiquée par des féministes, y compris l'autrice à succès de la saga Harry Potter J. Mais avec le temps j'aurais eu de moins en moins d'énergie pour mon travail et je ne peux le faire qu'à 100 %. Les critiques du texte estiment que des prédateurs sexuels peuvent s'en servir pour accéder à des lieux réservés aux femmes. Cela avait créé de vives réactions. Elle se bat depuis pour l'organisation d'un nouveau vote, « J'aurais pu faire quelques mois de plus, peut-être six mois, un an.

Après la démission surprise de Nicola Sturgeon mercredi, le tennisman a ironisé sur Twitter sur son possible avenir en politique.

« J’aurais pu faire quelques mois de plus, peut-être six mois, un an », a-t-elle estimé. Je cherchais à entrer en politique après avoir fini de jouer », a écrit le sportif écossais sur Twitter en partageant un article de la BBC annonçant la démission mercredi de la première ministre Nicola Sturgeon. « Un poste vacant intéressant.

Scottish National party leader to give a press conference in Edinburgh at 11am.

He has experience running SNP election campaigns and, alongside Swinney, is one of the few veterans of the Salmond era. He is not liked on the left of the party after forcing through a change of SNP policy to support However, Swinney briefly served as SNP leader in the early 2000s after Alex Salmond unexpectedly quit as party leader. “I have spent almost three decades in frontline politics, a decade and a half on the top or second-top rung of government. John Swinney, her trusted deputy first minister and one of few senior figures in her small inner circle, could throw his hat into the ring. Of course there are difficult issues confronting the government just now, but when is that ever not the case?

So began the inevitable parsing of her resignation speech, itself praised for its honesty and humility – particularly in contrast to recent UK prime ministerial ...

Those who know Sturgeon well highlight her comments on Wednesday on the polarisation of Scottish politics, and its “brutal” nature – especially for women. Jeane Freeman, whose friendship with Sturgeon was cemented when she worked as her health secretary during the pandemic, told the Guardian: “It’s inevitable that going through something as relentless and all-consuming takes its toll, as I know personally. That Sturgeon was ready to leave the role she has occupied since she seamlessly replaced Alex Salmond in 2014 was no secret. MP Amy Callaghan toppled the former Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson in 2019 and Sturgeon’s delighted fist-pumping reaction, caught unintentionally on camera, went viral at the time. While she leaves the independence question in deadlock, she insisted her decision to step down was anchored in what was right “for the country, for my party and for the independence cause I have devoted my life to”. I will always be a feminist.” But Sturgeon is a woman who likes to craft her own narrative. [harassment complaints made against the former first minister](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/30/alex-salmond-inquiry-upheld-five-sexual-harassment-complaints), constant calls for her to quit, and ultimately her being [cleared](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/22/nicola-sturgeon-cleared-of-knowingly-breaching-ministerial-code) of misleading parliament. In her resignation speech she warmly thanked “my SNP family”, the party she joined as a serious-minded 16-year-old in the 1980s, when support for independence was marginal and membership was not about forging a career in politics. She The superlatives flooded in from supporters and opponents alike, describing Scotland’s first female first minister, who has led her party to political dominance for nearly a decade, as “formidable”, “unparalleled”, “tireless”. [Nicola Sturgeon](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/nicola-sturgeon) in the hours before she publicly announced her resignation as Scotland’s first minister, it was the timing and not the fact of her departure that came as the almighty shock.

Scotland's first minister will remain in office until successor is elected, but said 'time is right to make way for someone else.'

“This is just a completely wild situation,” they said ahead of the conference. “I’ve literally done this in one capacity or another for all of my life,” she said. She has also been under fire over the housing of a convicted rapist, who changed their gender, in a women’s prison. But the SNP leader has been embroiled in a row with the British government in recent weeks, after it blocked a bill aimed at reforming Scotland’s gender self-declaration laws. “However, since my very first moments in the job, I have believed that part of serving well would be to know almost instinctively when the time is right to make way for someone else. Sturgeon pointed out that she had been a member of the Scottish Parliament since the age of 29, and in government since the age of 37.

A la tête du gouvernement écossais depuis huit ans, elle affirme ne plus avoir l'énergie pour continuer.

Scottish politics has, for years now, had an outsized voice in the wider UK political conversation. The reason is simple: the prospect of Scottish ...

To put that in perspective, the last time they won a general election, in 2005, they won 41 seats in Scotland. How will the collective instincts of some of those Scots most committed to the cause of independence express themselves in selecting the next figurehead for the cause, and how will they take that argument to the persuadable but not convinced? A necessary, but not sufficient component in that is continuing to win elections and continuing to prove that Scottish public opinion remains, at the very least, split down the middle on the question of independence. And the SNP became and remain a significant player on the UK political stage: the third political party at Westminster and one with the potential to hold the balance of power in a hung parliament. And that - to state the obvious - matters massively in Scotland, but also everywhere else in the UK too. With the Scottish National Party running the Scottish government and holding the vast majority of Scottish seats at Westminster, the question of Scotland's constitutional future has remained live.

Andy Buchanan Agence France-Presse La première ministre écossaise Nicola Sturgeon salue de la main en quittant sa résidence officielle, mercredi, après l' ...

[loi controversée permettant le changement de genre](https://www.ledevoir.com/monde/europe/778088/royaume-uni-londres-bloque-une-loi-ecossaise-sur-le-changement-de-genre?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=hyperlien&utm_campaign=corps_texte) dès 16 ans et sans avis médical. Parmi les prétendants potentiels figurent l’adjoint de Nicola Sturgeon John Swinney, la jeune ministre des Finances Kate Forbes, le ministre de la Santé Humza Yousaf ou encore l’ancien député Angus Robertson. « Si elle ne peut pas diriger l’Écosse, qui le peut ? En huit années au pouvoir, Nicola Sturgeon, arrivée après la victoire du « non » au référendum d’autodétermination de 2014, avait réussi à relancer son camp défait et à accumuler les succès électoraux. Mais « le soutien à l’indépendance n’a pas augmenté autant qu’elle l’avait prédit. « Toute une série de questions qui peuvent avoir un impact sur les finances publiques d’une Écosse indépendante.