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Melanie McDonagh

Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon: The secret to happiness? It’s not politics

Frankly is Nicola Sturgeon’s bid to “reveal the person behind the politician”. As she puts it, “The seemingly confident, combative woman who dominated Scottish politics for more than a decade, unnerved the Westminster establishment, helped lead Scotland to the verge of independence and steered it through a global pandemic, is … painfully shy, an introvert.”

Well, she doesn’t seem like a martyr to self-doubt in her views and pronouncements. If politics is divided between Roundheads and Cavaliers, she’s a diminutive Roundhead, her inner Presbyterian evident in dogmatic progressivism.

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