Earnest, honest, at times emotional, and often good humoured, Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation statement was a display of the First Minister’s finer qualities.
If there was also the occasional flash of ego and self-regard, then that might be forgiven in the circumstances. If not now, when? As oratories of departure go, it was certainly more human and reflective than anything we saw from, say, Boris Johnson or Liz Truss in similar circumstances.
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