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20.05.2024 - 12:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The SNP is "too full of young people who have just come through the political ranks", Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The former first minister said it was "wrong" for young people to enter politics as a career choice.
Former first minister Humza Yousaf and SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn both found work as researchers for MSPs shortly after they graduated from university and have been involved in politics full-time since.
Mairi McAllan, the Net Zero Secretary, briefly worked as a lawyer after her graduation before becoming a special advisor to Roseanna Cunningham and then Sturgeon.
She was elected as an MSP at the age of 28 in 2021 and was immediately handed a ministerial position by the then first minister.
Sturgeon was speaking at the Charleston Literary Festival in the south of England on Sunday.
The ex-SNP leader said you people who became joined politics for a career rather than believing in something were doing so "for all the wrong reasons".
She added: “I think politics, including in my own party now, is probably too full of young people who have just come through the political ranks."
Sturgeon had a short professional career before becoming a full-time politician.
She trained as a solicitor for three years after leaving university.
The MSP then worked for four years at various law firms before entering the Scottish Parliament at the age of 28.
She also discussed her decision to resign as SNP leader.
She said: "I think, in politics, you reach a point where you know in yourself that you don't have as much to give anymore.
"I also thought that politics in Scotland, like politics everywhere right now, is pretty polarised".
She said she had reached "the point where I thought I was part of that problem" because there is no one in
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