‘It was a real shock’: constituents reel at Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation

There is a sense of pride about the departing first minister in Govanhill, Glasgow, although some are less effusive

Under sunless skies on Thursday, the residents of Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency and the community activists who have worked with her since she became an MSP were reeling from her shock announcement that she is standing down as first minister.

At Larkfield community centre in Govanhill, Glasgow, where Sturgeon holds a monthly surgery, Anne Marie Miller said the resignation of Scotland’s longest-serving and only female first minister was still hard to take in. “It was a real shock,” says the former Labour councillor. “When she came in last Friday there was no hint.”