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Nicola Sturgeon

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1. “Devices we kind of rested the initiative back, got into a process of negotiation which from late 2012 I was in charge of with Michael Moore on the other side of the debate that led to the Edinburgh Agreement and in the Edinburgh Agreement we effectively in terms of the process of the referendum we kind of got everything we wanted you know we got to set the date subject to Electoral Commission approval we got to set the question we were allowed or we won the argument over votes for 16 and 17 year olds so in terms of how that was then shaping up in process terms we were delighted with how that was I think to move on from process to substance we were always at a disadvantage there was a sort of institutional and I guess it might always be this when you've got a battle between the status quo and an argument for”

   2025-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 150. Nicola Sturgeon: What Really Happened In The Scottish Referendum (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I don't disagree with that. I don't think it's the whole story of the referendum. If we go back to David Cameron's decision to say yes to a referendum, which would take away any legal wrangling over whether the Scottish Parliament did or did not have power to do it unilaterally, in that moment, and that was the moment David Cameron took us a little bit by surprise, we hadn't expected him to do that when he did it. Briefly were on the back foot and suddenly thought, because at that point we didn't know whether he was going to say you can have a referendum, but you have to have it in three months' time. And so suddenly we thought, oh my goodness, we're not ready for this and yet we might be about to be rushed towards the point of decision. But we quickly regrouped. And Alec was always really good in these moments and through different, you know,”

   2025-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 150. Nicola Sturgeon: What Really Happened In The Scottish Referendum (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source