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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

Well, what a day it was yesterday, the news that broke just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning

that Nick and the Sturgeon was due to step down as First Minister of Scotland,

sent shockwaves throughout the political community, not only in Scotland, but also

in the UK, in Europe, in the world, actually. Because now it would see that the story has

become even bigger today than it was yesterday. It broke, of course, on my show yesterday,

as all the big resignation stories do in politics, it would seem. Coming up later on, we're going

to talk to Alex Salmon, the former leader of the SMP, the former sort of, you might say, mentor of Nicholas Sturgeon, the man who

kind of brought her into politics, trained her up to be the leader when he stepped down in 2014.

She now, unfortunately, though, is not in the same position because she's looking down the

barrel of a sort of abyss, if you like,

because there's nobody really in place to succeed her.

She's going to step down as leader of the SNP.

And here's what I'm going to say straight up.

I think the SNP is in a pretty poor position

because independence now is out the window.

She hasn't been able to get any more people to believe in independence

than there were in 2014.

The figures are more or less exactly the same, so if they did have a referendum again today, basically, it would be, no, we don't want to leave the Union.

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