Britain | Sturgeon goes
Nicola Sturgeon leaves with Scotland split in two
That is a mark of both triumph and failure
When Nicola Sturgeon joined the Scottish National Party (SNP) as a 16-year-old schoolgirl, the party was a minnow and the prospect of independence a distant dream. It held two seats in the Westminster Parliament. No more than a third of Scots supported divorce.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A house divided”
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