In years to come, the children of an independent Scotland will ask their older relatives, “Where were you when Nicola Sturgeon resigned?” My answer will be: at home with a sore throat, a bad cough (not Covid) and no voice – which means I have to cancel a scheduled appearance on Question Time, and cannot do any media for the first three days after the shock announcement.
I busy myself writing my local newspaper column, another on lesbian erasure for the House magazine’s LGBT History Month edition, a foreword to a paper on how gender-identity ideology is forcing lesbians back into the closet, and my weekly column for the National. Suffice to say, Sturgeon and I have not seen eye to eye on either independence strategy or the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, so I see the SNP leadership election as an opportunity for the party to reset on both issues. Time to move our domestic policy agenda off identity politics and back on to the bread-and-butter issues my constituents care about.
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