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what doesn't kill me only makes me MORE CHIC
It's a surprise she's left as suddenly as she has. I presume time will tell if it had anything to do with the police handing in a report investigating the missing £600k from SNP party funds the day before she resigned (there's recently been a lot of eyebrow raising at her husband, who's SNP party chair, lending the party £100k and her claiming to have not known anything about it) - I'm guessing legal reasons are holding back the press from speculating much about that angle.
Regardless of how that washes out though, she really wasn't in a great position at all internally in the SNP. Stephen Flynn (the party's new Westminster leader) isn't an ally of hers and basically dethroned his predecessor Ian Blackford (who is/was her ally) against her will. Her pledge to run the next SNP general election campaign as a de facto independence referendum had gone down v badly internally and had MPs who would ordinarily be considered loyal to her/close allies, like Stewart McDonald, writing papers speaking out against it publicly (historically a massive no-no / close to unheard of in the SNP, which is notorious for how strict its whip is on party discipline).
She was in a seriously bad place in terms of having a lot of the party going against her expressed election strategy (one of the most essential prerogatives of a leader), and it feels exceptionally convenient for her (plus a lot of people/media outlets opposed to trans rights) that her resignation is being framed as to do with the recent GRA reform attempts, or her just chucking in the towel cos she'd had a long run.
Regardless of how that washes out though, she really wasn't in a great position at all internally in the SNP. Stephen Flynn (the party's new Westminster leader) isn't an ally of hers and basically dethroned his predecessor Ian Blackford (who is/was her ally) against her will. Her pledge to run the next SNP general election campaign as a de facto independence referendum had gone down v badly internally and had MPs who would ordinarily be considered loyal to her/close allies, like Stewart McDonald, writing papers speaking out against it publicly (historically a massive no-no / close to unheard of in the SNP, which is notorious for how strict its whip is on party discipline).
She was in a seriously bad place in terms of having a lot of the party going against her expressed election strategy (one of the most essential prerogatives of a leader), and it feels exceptionally convenient for her (plus a lot of people/media outlets opposed to trans rights) that her resignation is being framed as to do with the recent GRA reform attempts, or her just chucking in the towel cos she'd had a long run.