NICOLA Sturgeon is not first minister anymore. She’s not even in government. Not everyone in the Scottish Parliament has got that message ...
for the first time since her resignation – but more than one of her fellow MSPs appeared to have missed that pretty major change in Scottish politics altogether.The Conservative MSP began by reading a quote from the Promise Oversight Board, which said that achievingMcCall asked: “Does the minister agree with the oversight board’s assessment?”Sturgeon, who is not a “minister” any longer, answered that she believed the board were correct. She ignored that McCall had put her back into government.
“You know she'll have had a big post-it on her notes saying, 'don't call Nicola Sturgeon first minister’.” After being first minister for near enough nine years, it’s perhaps hardly surprising that Sturgeon’s new position is taking some politicians some getting used to.The former SNP leader used her first speech in Holyrood since resigning to say that some things look “clearer” from the backbenches than the frontlines of politics –Saying she accepted she had played a role, Sturgeon cautioned: “It is up to us what dynamic that disagreement creates. Acrimony and stalemate? Or creative tension.
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