Nicola Sturgeon has had something of an epiphany in recent days – she shouldn’t have pushed so hard on her calamitous gender reforms.
The sound of a stable door slamming shut came as the former First Minister publicised her forthcoming memoir, optimistically entitled Frankly.
She didn’t anticipate how divisive gender self-ID would be – which is hard to swallow – but she still can’t bring herself to disown the policy.
The autobiography and the accompanying ITV interview are heavy on revisionism, as you’d expect, with a hefty dose of blame-shifting for good measure.
Ms Sturgeon could have said sorry for the gender shambles and the damage it did to her party, and admit that she got it badly wrong.
