Well, one a day in British politics, Nicola Sturgeon has resigned and you're listening to

the Times Red Box Politics podcast. It's a special edition of the podcast today. We're going

to give you a roundup of the reaction to Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as it happened live

on Times Radio. First, we heard from Alex Massey, Times and Spectates Economist in Scotland

and are very own maturely. You're asking, Matt, whether Sturgeon had SM peaked in the last

week or two, which is as ever a very pressing question. But did you expect this perhaps inevitable

conclusion to come quite so quickly? I'll tell you what, it was interesting. Alex was on the show

last week where we were asking exactly that question. It was after Nicola Sturgeon had that

terrible press conference. She started the year with the idea of doing a press conference every

week and they'd gone quite well because she talked about the NHS. And last week was a real hot

project of a message. She couldn't answer questions on the trans question. She couldn't answer

questions about her husband loaning money to the party that she runs. And it's interesting,

the respect of Ruth Davidson about it. Obviously, you went toe to toe with Nicola Sturgeon for such a

long time as conservative leader in Scotland. She said she thought something had gone, some spark

or some magic that Nicola Sturgeon had seemed to have gone. And then you should have put that

together with a sizable drop in support for the SMP and for independence, albeit still from a very

high base. And it felt like something was happening. But as it was with all these things,

you don't have to be the wally you predict. Well, I think you're going to reside next week.

So you don't believe it because she survived for such a long time.

Alex, you've been banging this drum for quite some time that Nicola Sturgeon's golden age was

over and that the the the rot was perhaps setting into her administration. But did you expect it to come

to this sort of end quite this quickly? Not this week, no. I mean, you know, I mean time is the

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