Nicola Sturgeon confirms she will resign as First Minister:
The SNP leader has stunned the political world with the sudden timing of her announcement today.
"However, since the very first moment in the job, I have believed that part of serving well would be to know, almost instinctively, when the time is right, to make way for someone else. And she insisted her decision to resign as First Minister "is not a reaction to short-term pressures". "So if this was just a question of my ability or my resilience to get through the latest period of pressure I wouldn’t be standing here today, but it’s not.
But she has faced growing criticism from some in her party after her plan to hold a referendum on Scottish independence was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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