Now Nicola tucks her pins away like Mrs T
HER legs have been at the centre of controversy after she bared them for a meeting with Theresa May this week.
But now Nicola Sturgeon has gone further, by showing off her toes as she signed a letter to the Prime Minister formally requesting a second Scottish independence referendum.
The Scottish Government last night tweeted a picture of the First Minister with her feet up on a couch in her official Edinburgh residence.
Miss Sturgeon, 46, has said she is a ‘child of Thatcher’ who got involved in politics because of her anger at the policies of the late Tory prime minister. But last night’s picture looked remarkably similar to a relaxed shot of the then premier taken in Downing Street during the 1980s.
Miss Sturgeon is pressing ahead with a formal approach for a section 30 order – the mechanism for the powers to hold a referendum – despite being told by Mrs May ‘now is not the time’.
The Scottish Government tweet read: ‘First Minister @NicolaSturgeon in Bute House, Edinburgh, working on final draft of Theresa Section May.’ 30 It letteris expectedto Primeto be Ministersent to Downing Street today. Around 62 per cent of Scottish voters backed the UK remaining part of the EU in June 2016 and the SNP manifesto for last year’s Holyrood elections made clear another ballot on independence should take place if there were a ‘material change in circumstances’ from the previous ballot in 2014. But Scottish Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians are opposed to it.
Alongside a front-page shot of Mrs May and Nicola Sturgeon in Glasgow on Monday, Tuesday’s Daily Mail ran the headline ‘Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it!’.