Why Did She Go?

There's no need to wait for history - her legacy is irrationality, betrayal, illness and death, whatever side of the fence you're on.

Nicola Sturgeon announced her resignation in a surprise press conference on the 15th February. The strains of the job had taken their toll at a personal level, she said; at a political one, the calculations and her narrowing prospects suggested that she had gotten herself boxed into a corner from which she, as a political figure, could not escape. How c…