As Sir Keir Starmer enters his first week as Prime Minister, north of the border the Nats are facing a moment of reckoning. After the SNP’s bruising defeat on Friday, where the party ended up with just nine seats, a number of politicians have spoken out about what they think went wrong. And it’s not good news for Dear Leader Nicola Sturgeon…
Ex-MP for Edinburgh South West, Joanna Cherry has hit out at her former boss after last week’s rather dire result. Sturgeon owes the party an ‘apology’, Cherry agreed, telling Sky News that ‘I think she does. Nicola Sturgeon was a very strong leader who brooked no debate and no dissent, as I know to my considerable cost.’ Steerpike hears there was a rather lot of frustration in the party after the former first minister appeared as an election night pundit on ITV, frequently referring to her party as ‘they’ and shifting any blame from her door.
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