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Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has had enough and quit her job.

The first minister is never off duty, particularly in this day and age

there is virtually no privacy and the nature and form of modern political discourse

means that there is a much greater intensity.

Day I say brutality to life is a politician than in years gone by.

So what does Sturgeon's resignation mean for the Scottish and indeed the UK political landscape?

Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to Westminster

from the Financial Times, with me George Parker in the hot seat vacated by Seb Payne

for the next few weeks before the pods relaunched with a new format and a new name.

In this week's episode, what now for the Scottish independence movement?

I'll be discussing this with the FT Scotland correspondent, the Cano Maniander

and constitutional expert, Nicola McEwan, Professor of Territorial Politics at Edinburgh University.

And then we'll look at what Sturgeon's departure means for the Labour Party's prospects in Scotland.

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