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Nicola Sturgeon: “I’m a child of the Thatcher years”

Nicola Sturgeon is a working-class woman in a profession dominated by middle-class men. The incoming SNP leader wants to lead Scotland into a new social-democratic era

By Jamie Maxwell

Illustration by Ralph Steadman

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