SCOTLAND’S First Minister has considered fostering children with her husband Peter Murrell after leaving politics, she has said.
Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with Vogue ahead of COP26 coming to Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon spoke about her home life and reflected on the miscarriage she had 10 years ago.
“Sometimes, for whatever reason, having a baby just doesn’t happen,” she told the magazine. “No matter how much we might want it to.”
Sturgeon said after the experience she has become “really involved in and passionate about improving the opportunities for young people who grew up in care”.
She added that after politics “fostering children may be something we would think about … it’s something my husband and I have only scratched the surface of talking about”.
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The SNP leader also spoke to Vogue about her relationships with various senior UK Government figures.
Sturgeon said she hadn’t seen a lot of Boris Johnson recently, and added he is not particularly involved with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments.
“He tends to delegate most of his interactions with the devolved governments to Michael Gove,” she said. “That’s fine, Michael Gove and I work together well, but it’s a different approach to his predecessors.”
The First Minister suggested that might be down to a “bit of a fragile male ego”.
“He seems to have a disinclination to be, metaphorically speaking, in the same room as me,” she pointed out. “It’s odd.”
On the campaign for Scottish independence, the First Minister said: “There’s no status quo: the UK that people wanted to stay a part of in 2014 arguably does not exist any longer.”
She also spoke about the importance of the COP26 summit’s attempt to limit global warming to 1.5C.
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She said: “It probably is the last chance the world has to reach an agreement that is specific enough to meet the Paris 1.5 degrees target.
“It’s a massive opportunity, but I think there will be a real difficulty if that opportunity is not taken.”
Discussing the future of the oil and gas industry, she said: “This has not been an easy thing for somebody in my position and in the political tradition I come from to say, but we have to ask ourselves whether new exploration for oil and gas is consistent with meeting the climate change imperatives.”
Asked where she would take a break if she had time, the FM revealed one of her “favourite places in the world” is the Western Isles – specifically the beaches of Harris.
“Beautiful yellow sand, blue sea. As long as the weather is not typically Scottish, it is absolutely glorious.”
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