Curious case of a strangely silent Sturgeon

WTALKING of resignation statements, David Cameron’s lasted seven minutes; Theresa May’s six minutes 50 seconds; Boris’s six minutes; Liz Truss three. And Sturgeon? A yawn-stifling 18 minutes. Selfindulgent as well as hypocritical.

hen Theresa May quit as Prime Minister back in 2019 there was a swift and predictable response from Scottish First Minister nicola Sturgeon.

after paying tribute to May’s service to the country, she twisted the knife saying: ‘Given current circumstances, it also feels deeply wrong for another Tory to be installed in no 10 without a General election.’

When May’s successor fell last summer, Sturgeon’s ‘tribute’ described boris Johnson as a ‘disgrace to the office’, but still she couldn’t resist rattling the tin for another election: ‘one Prime Minister that we did not vote for replaced by yet another Prime Minister that we did not vote for and would not vote for given the chance.

‘For Scotland, the Westminster system doesn’t represent our best interests and that is why we don’t just need a change of Prime Minister... Scotland needs a permanent alternative to Westminster.’

by the time Liz Truss quit after 49 days in office, Sturgeon had got into her stride. ‘The interests of the Tory Party should concern no one right now. a General election is now a democratic imperative.’

So what about a new Scottish Parliament election, now that the First Minister will be packing her bags next month, two years into the SnP’s fourth term? not a word about it in Sturgeon’s tearful press conference last week.