2015.11.15 苏格兰政治家尼古拉-斯特金

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the Right Honourable Nicola Sturgeon, MSP.

Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the fifth First Minister of Scotland in the devolved era, she is the first woman to hold either post. The eldest of two daughters, she was brought up in Irvine and attended the local Dreghorn Primary School. A studious child, she was encouraged in her interest in current affairs by a teacher and joined the SNP aged 16. At 21, she was the youngest candidate in the 1992 General Election, contesting the safe Labour seat of Glasgow Shettleston.

She learned a lot about electoral defeat in those first years, but after several unsuccessful attempts, she was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a list MSP for Glasgow in 1999. She served as the party's shadow minister for education, and later for health and for justice and was elected deputy leader of her party in 2004, standing on a joint ticket with Alex Salmond. When the SNP won the highest number of seats in the 2007 election, she was appointed deputy First Minister. She also took on responsibility for the SNP's independence referendum campaign.

In November 2014, following the No vote in the Scottish independence referendum and the subsequent resignation of Alex Salmond, Sturgeon was elected leader of the SNP and became First Minister of Scotland. She's been awarded the Scottish Politician of the Year award three times and in 2015 was judged to be the Most Influential Woman in the UK by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

She is married to Peter Murrell, Chief Executive of the SNP.



尊敬的尼古拉-斯特金，MSP

她是苏格兰国家党（SNP）的领导人，也是权力下放时代的第五位苏格兰第一部长，是第一位担任这两个职位的女性。她是两个女儿中的长女，在尔湾长大，在当地的德雷戈恩小学上学。她是个好学的孩子，在老师的鼓励下对时事感兴趣，16岁时加入了苏格兰民族党。21岁时，她是1992年大选中最年轻的候选人，参加了工党在格拉斯哥Shettleston的安全席位的竞选。

在最初的几年里，她学到了很多关于选举失败的知识，但在几次失败后，她于1999年当选为苏格兰议会格拉斯哥地区的议员名单。她曾担任该党的教育影子部长，后来又担任卫生和司法部长，并于2004年当选为该党的副领袖，与亚历克斯-萨尔蒙德（Alex Salmond）共同参选。当苏格兰民族党在2007年的选举中赢得最高席位时，她被任命为第一副部长。她还负责了苏格兰民族党的独立公投活动。

2014年11月，在苏格兰独立公投中的反对票和亚历克斯-萨尔蒙德随后的辞职后，斯特金当选为苏格兰民族党领袖，并成为苏格兰第一部长。她曾三次获得苏格兰年度政治家奖，并在2015年被英国广播公司第四台的 "女性时间 "节目评为英国最具影响力的女性。

她的丈夫是苏格兰民族党首席执行官彼得-穆瑞尔。