One would have to go back to Charles Haughey - perhaps even to the disgraced President Nixon - to recall a political reputation today in such rubble as that of Nicola Sturgeon.
Yesterday was the moment at which Nicola Sturgeon had the opportunity to come clean with the Scottish public. Of course she didn t. Few will have expected full and frank answers.
Nicola Sturgeon s reputation lay in tatters last night after she apologised to bereaved families for the deaths of thousands of Scots during her handling of the pandemic.