By her own admission, is one of life's catastrophisers – never fully convinced that disaster does not lurk around the next bend. In a sense, then, she has been preparing for a moment such as this all her political days.'What drives me is the Scottish fear of failure,' she said early in her career.Much later, during the final days of her First Ministership, her sense of foreboding was no less acute – despite exuding an abundance of self-belief throughout her career. 'I've got a terrible dread about tempting fate,' she said.
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