Nicola Sturgeon
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Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who is currently serving as Scotland's fifth First Minister and Prime Minister of Scotland and the Scottish National Party's leader since November 2014.
She is the first woman to hold either position.
Sturgeon has been a member of the Glasgow electoral area from 1999 to 2007 first as an additional member of the Glasgow Southside, then Glasgow Govan from 2007 to 2011.
Sturgeon, a law graduate at the University of Glasgow, worked as a solicitor in Glasgow.
She served as Scotland's shadow minister for education, health, and justice after being elected to the Scottish Parliament.
Following John Swinney's departure in 2004, she declared in 2004 that she would run as a candidate for the SNP's leadership.
However, she later resigned from the competition in favour of Alex Salmond, instead standing as depute (deputy) leader on a joint ticket with Salmond. Both were elected in the Scottish Parliament, and Sturgeon led the SNP in the Scottish Parliament from 2004 to 2007. Salmond was still an MP in the House of Commons.
In the 2007 election, the SNP gained the most seats in the Scottish Parliament, with Salmond being named First Minister.
He named Sturgeon as both the First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing.
In 2012, she was named as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Capital, and Cities. Salmond declared that after losing the "Yes" campaign at the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, he would resign as the party's leader and would resign as First Minister until a new leader was selected.
By the time nominations closed, no one else had been nominated for the position, leaving Sturgeon to take the party's leadership at the SNP's annual conference.
On November 19, she was officially elected to replace Salmond as First Minister.
Early life
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon was born in Irvine's Ayrshire Central Hospital on July 19, 1970. She is the eldest of two children born to Joan Kerr Sturgeon (née Ferguson, born 23 October 1952), a dental nurse, and Robin Sturgeon (born 28 September 1948), an electrician. Gillian Sturgeon, her younger sister, is an NHS employee. Margaret Sturgeon (née Mill), her paternal grandmother, was from Ryhope, which is now the City of Sunderland, and her family has roots in North East England. At St Paul's Parish Church in 1943, her grandmother married Robert Sturgeon, a gardener from Ayr, and the two families later moved to the south west of Scotland. Sturgeon grew up in Prestwick and in Dreghorn, a terraced council house that her parents bought through the right-to-buy scheme.
Sturgeon was a quiet child and has been referred to by her younger sister as "the sensible one" of the two species. Sturgeon was shy, and she said she "much prefers to read a book rather than speaking to people." She discovered a love for books and reading that grew into adulthood. "You can't tell if I was a boy or a girl," she said of herself as a "austere" teen with a gothic style.Sturgeon was a fan of Wham!
Duran Duran and Irma Duran, and I loved spending Saturday nights at Frosty's Ice Disco in Irvine.She attended Dreghorn Primary School from 1975 to 1982, and Greenwood Academy from 1982 to 1988. She later studied law at the University of Glasgow School of Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) in 1992 and a Certificate in Legal Practice the following year. During her time at the University of Glasgow, she was active as a member of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association and the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council.
Sturgeon completed her law training at McClure Naismith, a Glasgow firm of solicitors, following her graduation. She worked for Bell & Craig, a solicitor firm in Stirling, and later at the Drumchapel Law Centre in Glasgow and a Money Advice Centre, from 1997 to 1999, and later on to the Scottish Parliament.
Sturgeon volunteered for Nuclear Disarmament in youth and, at the age of 16, she became the Scottish National Party's Youth Affairs Vice Convener and Publicity Vice Convener. She joined the SNP following an assumption that her English teacher, who was a Labour councillor, would be a Labour supporter. Sturgeon's first taste of politics came from going door to door to elect Kay Ullrich, her local SNP candidate in the 1987 UK General Election. Despite Ullrich's inability to win the position, Sturgeon ploughed her political passion to the Young Scottish Nationalists (now the Young Scots For Independence), serving as the country's national executive when she was 17.
Sturgeon said it was Margaret Thatcher who pushed her to seek politics because, as a result of rising unemployment in Scotland at the time, she had "a strong sense that it was wrong for Scotland to be led by a Tory government that we hadn't seen."
In the 1992 general election, she became Scotland's youngest parliamentary candidate. In the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, age 21 was chosen as the SNP candidate. She was dissatisfied after being defeated by almost 15,000 votes by Labour. In May 1992, Sturgeon failed as the SNP candidate for the Irvine North ward on Cunninghame District Council and in 1995, he stood unsuccessfully for the Bridgeton ward on Glasgow City Council.
On a political research visit to Australia in the mid-1990s, Sturgeon and Charles Kennedy went together.
Sturgeon was elected to contest the Glasgow Govan seat for the SNP in 1997 general election. Boundary changes resulted in a substantial increase in the seat's notional Labour majority. However, Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, as well as a vivacious local campaign, resulted in Glasgow Govan being the only Scottish seat to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a national Labour election. Sarwar did, however, gain the seat with a majority of 2,914 votes. Sturgeon was appointed as the SNP's spokesperson for energy and education a few weeks after this.
Personal life
Sturgeon and her partner, Peter Murrell, are co-chairman of the SNP, and the group's chief executive officer lives in Glasgow. The two people have been together since 2003. They announced their engagement on 29 January 2010 and married in Glasgow on July 16th. Sturgeon wrote about her marriage in 2012, telling The Daily Record: "Working in the same field of work has its ups and down sides." On the up side, Peter knows what's going on and why I am late for work all the time. On the down side, you just end up talking about it all the time, and you never leave it outside."
Sturgeon is well-known for her love of fiction, and she writes, "gives me a lot of joy and supports with the pressures and strains of work."
Joan was the SNP Provost of North Ayrshire council, where she served as councillor for the Irvine East ward from 2007 to 2016. In 2016, Sturgeon admitted that she had miscarried five years ago.
Sturgeon tested positive for COVID-19 in May 2022. She completed a self-isolation phase in accordance with the government's instructions.
Early parliamentary career
Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan. Although she failed to win the seat, she was placed first in the SNP's regional list for the Glasgow region, and was thus elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament. The SNP emerged as the second largest party and sat in opposition to the Labour-Lib Dem coalition. In Alex Salmond's shadow cabinet, she served as Shadow Minister for Children and Education from 1999 to 2000.
As Shadow Education minister, Sturgeon backed Labour's efforts to repeal Section 28 – a law that banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools. There was however significant public opposition to repeal and an unscientific postal vote on the issue – organised by SNP donor Brian Souter – 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.
She also served as Shadow Minister for Health and Community Care from 2000 to 2003, and Shadow Minister for Justice from 2003 to 2004. She also served as a member of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee and the Health and Community Care Committee.
On 22 June 2004, John Swinney resigned as Leader of the SNP following poor results in the European Parliament election. His then-depute, Roseanna Cunningham, immediately announced her intention to stand for the leadership. The previous leader, Alex Salmond, announced at the time that he would not stand. On 24 June 2004, Sturgeon announced that she would also be a candidate in the forthcoming election for the leadership, with Kenny MacAskill as her running mate. The political columnist Iain Macwhirter 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".
However, once Cunningham emerged as the favourite to win, Salmond announced that his intention to stand for the leadership; 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. The majority of the SNP hierarchy lent their support to the Salmond–Sturgeon bid for the leadership, although MSP Alex Neil backed Salmond as leader, but refused to endorse Sturgeon as depute.
The results of the leadership contest were announced on 3 September 2004, with Salmond and Sturgeon elected as Leader and Depute Leader respectively. As Salmond was still an MP in the House of Commons, Sturgeon led the SNP at the Scottish Parliament until the 2007 election, when Salmond was elected as an MSP.
As leader of the SNP in the Scottish Parliament, she served as the Leader of the Opposition in Holyrood. Sturgeon became a high-profile figure in Scottish politics and often clashed with First Minister Jack McConnell at First Minister's Questions. This included rows over the House of Commons' decision to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system, and the SNP's plans to replace council tax in Scotland with a local income tax. Sturgeon quickly grew a reputation in Holyrood as opposition leader, becoming known as "nippy sweetie" – Scottish slang for the "sharp-tongued and strong-minded".