A Divisive Scandal Grips Scotland Before Key Election for U.K.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s public falling out with her predecessor risks escalating at a critical time.
Artist Kaya Mar holds his paintings of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond outside the 81st SNP conference in Aberdeen.
Photographer: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images EuropeA bitter dispute between the two grandees of Scotland’s independence movement is blowing up just weeks before elections that could be critical to the future of the U.K.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has increased her popularity during Brexit and the pandemic, and her Scottish National Party has a seemingly unassailable lead in the polls before Scotland votes in May. Yet her falling out with predecessor and former mentor Alex Salmond is dominating the political conversation in Edinburgh just when support for breaking away from the rest of the U.K. is strongest.