Nicola Sturgeon has become Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister.
Having now served a total of seven years, six months and five days in the top job, Ms Sturgeon has overtaken her predecessor Alex Salmond – who quit as first minister in the wake of Scots voting to stay part of the UK in the 2014 independence referendum.
At the time of that vote Ms Sturgeon and Mr Salmond worked closely together at the heart of the first-ever SNP administration at Holyrood.
