Nicola Sturgeon has claimed she 'underestimated' how polarised political debate in Scotland has become.
Nicola Sturgeon has claimed she "underestimated" how polarised political debate in Scotland has become.
The proposal has been met with uproar from many figures involved in Scots law, who view it as undermining a key pillar of the country's justice system. "Polarised, often highly toxic, public discourse is not a uniquely Scottish phenomenon," Sturgeon wrote in a piece for the Guardian."But I had come to feel that the duration of my time in the trenches of frontline politics was making it harder for me to broker the common ground necessary to advance difficult or controversial policy changes.
She added: "The reaction to the proposed pilot of judge-only rape trials in Scotland, part of a package of measures to improve access to justice for victims of this appalling crime, is a case in point."
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