Sturgeon resigns
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sturgeon is stepping down as Scotland's First Minister.
Jeremy Corbyn is banned from standing as a Labour MP.
If there’s a broad News Agents take away it’s this: be careful about sitting down with Lewis Goodall.
Today we look at what may lie behind Sturgeon's decision and what it could mean for Scottish independence.
And we ask Diane Abbott - old friend of Jeremy Corbyn - is she backs the current or former Labour leader now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This was Nicholas Sturgeon with the newsagents just three weeks ago when Lewis Goodall was asking her about her longevity. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm one of these people, as my family would tell you, |
| 0:22.7 | I've got a terrible dread about tempting fate, |
| 0:25.4 | so as soon as you start to pack yourself in the back, |
| 0:27.7 | something terrible is going to... |
| 0:29.4 | That is very Scottish as well. |
| 0:31.0 | And this was Nicola Sturgeon, speaking in Edinburgh today, |
| 0:34.5 | announcing that actually her longevity had come to an end. |
| 0:38.3 | In my head and in my heart, I know that time is now, that it is right for me, for my party and for |
| 0:47.7 | the country. And so today I am announcing my intention to step down as first minister and leader of my party. I have asked |
| 0:56.6 | the national secretary of the SNP to begin the process of electing a new party leader and I will |
| 1:02.5 | remain in office until my successor is elected. This was a political bombshell. After eight years |
| 1:10.6 | as Scotland's first minister, After eight years as Scotland's first minister, |
| 1:13.2 | another eight years, as Scotland's deputy first minister, |
| 1:17.5 | Nicholas Sturgeon shocked us, I think most of her country, |
| 1:22.2 | and possibly many, many of her colleagues, |
| 1:26.0 | with the news that she'd stepped down. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:33.0 | The Newsagents. It's Lewis. It's Emily. And today, as we've been saying, we're all reeling, I suppose, in the political world, |
| 1:42.4 | particularly in Scotland, after the Sturgeon resignation, |
| 1:46.3 | not least because, as Emily's already alluded to, we ourselves were in Edinburgh just about three |
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