One minute Sturgeon is queen of all she surveys, the vanquisher of Alex Salmond – crushed under her stiletto – the dominant political personality of her times, spoken of in the same respectful tones as Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Jacinda Adern, and tipped for a top job at the United Nations.

When she quit you could almost hear the laments for the lost leader emanating from every town and glen. She reassured her people that she’d still be around, ready to dispense wise counsel to her successor, and that they’d somehow manage without her.

The next minute she discovers PC Jack McLaren is rummaging through her knicker drawer, cyber-sleuth Archie Pepper is confiscating the hard drive and they’ve arrested her hubbie. It’s like a satirical mini tartan version of when the FBI came to get Trump.

You have to wonder how Sturgeon, a trained solicitor and apparently canny politician ended up in this parodic situation. Rarely can a politician and indeed an entire political party have fallen from grace quite so rapidly.

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