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Nicola Sturgeon: Dividing critics and supporters until the end

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Nicola Sturgeon was a key part of the campaign for a Yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

A No vote followed, but so did promotion as Alex Salmond resigned, leading the SNP .

A decade later , Sturgeon is planning her exit from Holyrood altogether.

Her retreat to the backbenches has been criticised for a perceived lack of engagement in the chamber.

Membership has dipped, so have finances, and a new chief executive in Carol Beattie faces real challenges in adapting the party to its new circumstances. What is absolutely certain is that we are now set to enter the truly post-Sturgeon era. Hot takes will follow. Will any of them blaze as brightly as Sturgeon once did?.