Nicola Sturgeon’s much-anticipated political memoir Frankly is now on sale after a cascade of hype and teasing interviews.
The once stratospherically popular Scottish Nationalist leader, who led her party to repeated electoral success before becoming by her own admission a polarising force in Scottish politics, reflects on her working-class upbringing and the “burning sense of destiny” that drove her.
As Scotland’s first female first minister, she participated in some of the most significant moments of modern political history – the independence referendum, the Brexit vote and its aftermath, and the Covid pandemic.
But her revelations have already inflamed many of the divisions she discusses in the book. So what have we learned?
