Nicola Sturgeon has set back women’s rights by a generation - That’s her legacy, says Dan Wootton

Today is a great day for the Union.

It is a great day for women.

It is a great day for biology.

It is a great day for genuine trans folk, too.

But most of all it is a great day for the long-suffering people of Scotland, who have been dictated to by a cult of personality not a true leader.

Then at 11am this morning, dramatic confirmation from Scheming Sturgeon that she step aside like Jacinda Ardern did…

But then the attempt to re-write history began.

The woman who was so convinced she would one day be the Queen of Scots wasn’t leaving because the public had turned on her extreme hard left woke agenda which resulted in the male rapist Adam Graham being sent to an all-female prison.

Nope, nothing to do with her cratering poll ratings and failed bid for an illegal second referendum on Scottish separatism…

Well, I’m sorry, I call BS on that.

Sturgeon knew the game was up.

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed she will be stepping down as SNP leader
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Scots – even loyal SNP supporters – were saying no to her bid to stoke a culture war at the expense of poor trans folk to distract from her monumental failure to deliver Scottish separation.

They were saying no to her call for the next general election to be a referendum on separatism when she is driving Scotland into the ground, with a failing NHS, record ambulance waiting times and the highest drug deaths in Europe.

Sturgeon leaves office with her separatism dream shattered and a litany of failures…

But, look, let’s be fair, I’m sure she had successes too. It’s just she didn’t seem to mention any in her press conference. We must have found some though, right…

Predictably, despite that lack of any discernible success, the left-wing media establishment have been lining Sturgeon’s exit route, tears in their eyes, to bagpipe her off into the sunset.

Sly News Political Editor Beth Rigby fawned: "Sturgeon one of the most formidable politicians of her generation."

ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston went further, swooning: "That was a truly remarkable resignation statement by Nicola Sturgeon.

"Whether or not you back her ideas and convictions, she has been one of the most important politicians of this generation. Her call for less irrationality and hysteria in politics should be heeded."

If you were left in any doubt about the intrinsic bias of the British MSM, then today is a wakeup call.

Compare the lovefest with Sturgeon to the vitriol and hysteria pumped out on the days Boris Johnson and Liz Truss resigned after deranged campaigns by the media.

But never forget, in the end the people of Scotland saw through the Sturgeon rhetoric, especially when it came to women’s safety.

She referred to male rapist Adam Graham as a her and sent him to a female prison, while stripping away protections of biological women.

Sturgeon has set back women’s rights by a generation.

That’s her legacy.