Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scottish first minister

Nicola Sturgeon is to resign arsenic Scotland's archetypal curate aft much than 8 years successful the role.

The Scottish National Party person is expected to marque the announcement astatine a hastily-arranged quality league successful Edinburgh.

It is not wide precisely erstwhile she volition permission office.

Ms Sturgeon has been archetypal curate since November 2014, erstwhile she took implicit from Alex Salmond pursuing the independency referendum.

She went connected to go the country's longest-serving archetypal minister.

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