This is in no-one’s interest at a time of national crisis.”With opposition parties and members of the public calling on Calderwood to quit, Police Scotland’s chief constable, Iain Livingstone, said his officers had given Calderwood a formal warning about her conduct after visiting her home on Sunday.In an intervention designed to shore up public confidence in the lockdown, “The legal instructions on not leaving your home without a reasonable excuse apply to everyone,” he said. Jeane Tennent Freeman OBE (born September 1953) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport since 26 June 2018. During the briefing on Sunday, Calderwood admitted she and her husband had also gone to Earlsferry the previous weekend – a fact not disclosed by the government on Saturday. That is not a risk either of us is willing to take.”Four hours before announcing her resignation, Sturgeon had announced that Calderwood was stepping back from all public campaigning on the outbreak, including the Scottish government public information film urging people to stay at home which was still being broadcast on Sunday.That failed to satisfy opposition parties.
Overall 52% of voters in the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, with 48% voting to remain.In response to the result, on 24 June 2016, Sturgeon said that On 24 June, Sturgeon said she would communicate to all EU member states that Scotland had voted to stay in the EU.Sturgeon confirmed in June 2016 that the Scottish government had formally agreed to draft legislation to allow a second independence referendum to take place.Following the 2017 UK general election, Nicola Sturgeon announced that the Scottish Government would postpone legislation pertaining to the proposed second referendum on Scottish independence until at least autumn 2018, when it is believed that the outcome of Brexit negotiations should become clearer.In response to the UK-wide vote for the United Kingdom to leave the In June 2017, Sturgeon criticised the approaches taken by both With a view towards Brexit, Sturgeon demanded greater powers for the Scottish Parliament, arguing that Brexit is threatening Scotland's Sturgeon and the SNP went into the Scottish council elections that were held on 4 May 2017, as the largest political party in the 32 local council areas in Scotland, having 424 councillors elected to serve on the councils across Scotland.While failing to win any outright overall control in any council area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including In January 2019, Sturgeon referred herself to an independent ministerial ethics body, which will lead to an investigation into her actions with respect to a In response to the Brexit vote, to discuss Scotland's interests, Sturgeon travelled to Sturgeon had also previously stripped Donald Trump of his ambassadorial role for Scottish businesses with the Scottish Government in the aftermath of Trump's views of an outright ban of First Minister of Scotland, Leader of the Scottish National Party “Individuals must not make personal exemptions bespoke to their own circumstances.”Earlier on Sunday, Sturgeon was asked several times whether Calderwood had tendered her resignation after her visits came to light, but refused to answer those questions directly. Instead, she hinted Calderwood had offered to quit but she had refused to allow it.“Whatever her reasons for doing so, she was wrong, and she knows that,” Sturgeon said, adding that Calderwood had given her an unreserved apology.“If I’m to do what I need to do, to steer this country through the crisis to the very best of my ability I need her to be able to focus on the job she is doing,” Sturgeon said.