Sturgeon remains the biggest name in Scottish policy

That Nicola Sturgeon should choose to withdraw from Holyrood in the next elections was fully awaited.

Even if the former Prime Minister liked to try to keep the media to guess.

When asked a few weeks ago if she was going to leave as MSP, she told journalists “you will have to wait and see”.

In reality, the chances that it remains to sit on the interclines and to make worthy interventions was always thin.

Having personally faced the Scottish government’s response to a world pandemic, for example, it would have been bored in tears.

In the early 1950s, she still had time and the potential to develop a post-political career.

There are memories that will be published this summer and a series of events related to the pivoting book.

When she left power for the first time, there was a lot of speculation about a kind of international job offer – until the police arrived.

The cloud that hangs over everything is the current investigation into the finances of the SNP.

Prosecutors must still decide whether or not to take a new measure with regard to it and the former treasurer of the Colin Beattie party – both of which were arrested, interviewed and released without charge.

The crown must also decide whether or not to continue the accusations of embezzlement of funds against Nicola Sturgeon, the former managing director of SNP, Peter Murrell.

The Branchform Investigation operation, launched in the summer of 2021, is now so long that it is in no way certain that it will have concluded at the time of the 2026 elections.

Whatever the decisions made, it seems that the couple of political power Sturgeon / Murrell will face the future independently of each other.

Sturgeon recently announced on behalf that they were both their marriage had ended and that, for all purposes, they have been separated for some time.

Although her decision to withdraw as MSP was obvious and eagerly awaited, she always has the capacity to surprise.

Nicola Sturgeon remains the biggest name in Scottish policy.

She was a player in British politics in a way that none of her successors could expect.

This was partly taken from his mandate – an extraordinary series of electoral victories which made his leader of the third part placed in Westminster.

This gave him a voice in Brexit debates and offered British media a political contrast with a succession of conservative primary, including Boris Johnson.

It was also considered a persistent threat to the continuation of the British state, pushing the limits of the devolution in the pursuit of its ambition to hold another referendum on independence.

In the end, nor the forces of his personality or his argument could not cause this.

Its strategy collapsed when The British Supreme Court ruled That any future vote must be agreed with the British government.

Subsequent discussions on the use of a general election in the United Kingdom as a substitute referendum lacked credibility.

It was an important factor in what ended his leadership, as is his accent on the policy of Gender Identity Switch – ironically, the subject of a debate on the opposition to Holyrood today.

There were also the divisions in the SNP and the broader independence movement caused by the The spectacular fallout Sturgeon had with his predecessor, Alex Salmond, When the Scottish government has poorly managed the harassment of complaints against it.

Then there was his attempt to realign Scottish policy by forming a power sharing partnership with the Greens to reach the political stability of the Scottish government.

This controversial arrangement was Abandoned by his immediate successor Humza Yousaf.

She was the Prime Minister who has expanded early learning and child care and used new social powers to introduce a unique weekly payment to policies that she would consider as important achievements.

While opposition parties say they would maintain these advantages, financial guard dogs warn that the extent of health and social protection expenditure in Scotland is not durable.

All this is part of the legacy of the sturgeons to be discussed because it counts for her departure from the Scottish Parliament in just over a year.

Nicola Sturgeon made decisions in a very tight circle and, according to an advisor, his decision -making group has become more and smaller.

In the end, this source said she operated in “A Circle of One”.

It was ultimately his decision to leave a high office, just as he is now him to completely leave the front line policy.

As she has noted in the past, Nicola Sturgeon is a loved one loved and hated to an almost equal extent, but there may be few things that would doubt that politics is a duller place without her presence.