Nicola Sturgeon considered leaving politics after just one term at Holyrood, she has said.

The former first minister was first elected as a regional MSP for Glasgow in the first term of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

But speaking at an event in her Glasgow Southside constituency as she launched her memoir, Frankly, Ms Sturgeon said she felt she had “failed” because she was unable to win her constituency.

By that point, she said, the future first minister had lost three constituency races – in 1992 and 1997 for Westminster and the Holyrood seat she contested in 1999.

“I wasn’t particularly happy in myself in the first term of Parliament,” she said at the event as part of the Govanhill Book Festival.

“This dream I’d had about being a politician was going to be realised and yet I felt

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