The pressures of leading a country through a pandemic in the face of 24/7 scrutiny have unsurprisingly taken their toll on Nicola Sturgeon.
After eight years in a job where switching off meant interviewing a Turkish feminist author at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland’s longest-serving first minister has had enough.
She is not, she said earlier, “expecting violins. But I am a human being as well as a politician”.
