Nicola Sturgeon has quit as First Minister of Scotland.
Ms Sturgeon has been first minister since she took over from Alex Salmond in November 2014, after he left the role in the wake of the failed Scottish independence referendum.Most recently, she had been embroiled in huge controversy over her attempts to reform gender recognition laws, which led to concerns that sex offenders could use the simplified rules to switch their officially recognised gender.
Within days of the law passing - and being blocked at Westminster - convicted double rapist Isla Bryson, a trans woman who still has male genitalia, was housed in a women's prison. That was reversed after an enormous outcry. Ms Sturgeon stuck to her guns on the reforms but she was criticised by nationalists for harming the independence movement, with support for detaching from the UK falling. Mr Salmond had attacked her for getting embroiled in "some daft ideology imported from elsewhere".
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