Get back to the day job. Those words have been ringing in Nicola Sturgeon’s ears for months now, ever since she gambled away the goodwill of the nation by using Brexit as an excuse to push for another independence referendum.

Well, yesterday Ms Sturgeon got back to the day job, and did so with a bang. She knew her programme for government, marking the end of the summer and the start of the new political year, had to be good. And it was. Bold. Imaginative. Big in ambition and scope. It was a step towards a kind of politics the whole nation could once again believe in. This was tantamount to the first minister saying: “Look, I know I screwed up. Here’s a reminder of