in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex
scottish parliament, passed overwhelmingly in the scottish parliament, so i don t think on that, people are in the snp because they want to deliver independence, they want to deliver independence, the first minister is still very popular, so i don t think it was to do with that, i think your point on jacinda are down was a good one, i remember seeing all sorts of theories why she quit and i don t know why but there was a man who had done the job for know why but there was a man who had done thejob for six know why but there was a man who had done the job for six years, had a young family, had taken things through covid, covid was exhausting, in these days of 2a hour media we sometimes forget about some of the big events that have happened in recent years, covid knocked the stuffing out of most of us, it was so awful for so many people with so many lives lost and that was a difficult thing for politicians of any colour as well, nicola somebody who led from the front and that with her da
supremacist merred someone. it s a tipping point for this white house, but when you have somebody who led a birther campaign for five years, when you have someone who busy said so many offensive things and i m talking about donald trump, not steve bannon, he did those things without steve bannon being in the room. steve bannon wasn t there for the press conference. this white house doesn t fundamentally change even though bannon is no longer in it. to the point, bannon s departure being a victory for the democrats. i think it s a good think. you don t have a devout white nationalist in the white house getting taxpayer salary but i still think there s a number of positive siz that this administration is putting forward through the attorney general and other areas particularly immigration where you still have the same problem. you still have people families being split up and people being deported. there s a number of different policy issues that this administration is really putting