But this was an interview more about what makes Scotland’s first minister tick than day-to-day politics.
Her nationalism, her instinct that Scotland would be better off as an independent country, had been shaped, she says, by her grandmother.
Her English grandmother.
“She came from just outside Sunderland and yet had this belief that Scotland should be an independent country,” the SNP leader says.
- Sturgeon reveals what makes her tick on Desert Island Discs, by Chris Mason, November 15, 2017.
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