Nicola Sturgeon


Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who is the fifth and current First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, in office since 2014. She is the first woman to hold either position. Sturgeon has been a member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region from 1999 to 2007, and as the member for Glasgow Southside since 2007 .

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon was born in Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine, Ayrshire, onJuly 1970. She is the eldest of three daughters born to Robin Sturgeon , an electrician, and Joan Kerr Sturgeon , a dental nurse. Her family has some roots in North East England her paternal grandmother was from Ryhope in what is now the City of Sunderland.

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