- Born
- Birth nameNicola Ferguson Sturgeon
- Nicknames
- Nippie Sweetie
- Wee Jimmy Krankie
- Wee Nippy
- Height1.60 m
- Nicola Sturgeon was born on July 19, 1970 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. She has been married to Peter Murrell since July 16, 2010.
- SpousePeter Murrell(July 16, 2010 - present)
- She studied law at Glasgow University, and worked as a solicitor at the Drumchapel Law Centre. She got into full-time politics at age 29, when she was elected to the new Holyrood parliament as a Glasgow regional MSP.
- She was the new leader of the Scottish National Party and, by association, Scotland's next first minister, following Alex Salmond's decision to stand down after the 2014 vote against independence.
- [on her party's success in the 2015 UK election] The tectonic plates in Scottish politics have shifted.
- [on the realities of being a twenty-first-century politician] I know how every make of phone works. It really deeply troubles me when I come across a phone I don't know how to work in selfie mode. At night, very, very often the sorest part of my body is my cheekbones.
- [on being called 'the most dangerous woman in Britain' by British tabloid The Daily Mail] It's the nicest thing the Daily Mail has said about me. I still trade off it. It did my street cred no end of good.
- I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery. So that's my claim to fame.
- [What is the best attribute you have as a leader or potential Prime Minister?] My background - I'm from Irvine in the West of Scotland - and believe I can relate to working people's aspirations far better than the Westminster elite can ever do.
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