Frankly is Nicola Sturgeon ’s bid to “reveal the person behind the politician”. As she puts it, “The seemingly confident, combative woman who dominated Scottish politics for more than a decade, unnerved the Westminster establishment, helped lead Scotland to the verge of independence and steered it through a global pandemic, is … painfully shy, an introvert.”

Well, she doesn’t seem like a martyr to self-doubt in her views and pronouncements. If politics is divided between Roundheads and Cavaliers, she’s a diminutive Roundhead, her inner Presbyterian evident in dogmatic progressivism.

What really sets her apart is that she is a brilliant communicator: clear, coherent and terse.

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