London | Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland and leading advocate for its independence, announced her surprise resignation on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), saying she no longer felt she could give the job her all and worried about her role as a polarising figure in the country.
“I believe that part of serving well would be to know, almost instinctively, when the time is right to make way for someone else,” she said. “In my head and in my heart, I know that time is now.”
