Nicola Sturgeon has announced her shock resignation as Scottish first minister, saying her departure is not the result of short-term pressures.
She is Scotland's longest-serving leader and the first woman to hold the post.
"However, since my very first moments in the job, I have believed the part of serving well would be to know almost instinctively when the time is right to make way for someone else. In my head and in my heart, I know that time is now," she said. Sturgeon has come under pressure to clarify her stance on transgender women being jailed in women's prisons, after safety concerns were raised over aIn Wednesday's press conference she denied the debate was the "final straw" that pushed her to resign, doubling down that she would not be pushed out by a "short-term issue."
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