The former first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who was ousted in March, has said that learning to drive was part of the “next phase of my sad life” and that she hoped getting behind the wheel would give her “a wee bit of fun”.
She revealed on Monday that she had passed her test, first time, and paid tribute to Phil MacAvity, her instructor.
She was spotted on a driving lesson with Mr MacAvity, in a blue Vauxhall Meriva with L plates, earlier this year.
The former SNP tyrant has learned to drive while the subject of a police investigation into alleged dodgy SNP finances. Ms Sturgeon was arrested in June and later released. She denied wrongdoing whilst on holiday on a £50,000 Caribbean cruise in August.
“So this happened today – at the tender age of 53, I passed my driving test (first time!!),” Ms Sturgeon wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture of her proudly displaying her pass certificate with her instructor.
“It was really important to me, as a 53-year-old former FM, now I can run over any bampot I see who did me wrong!
“If I see that Humza Yousaf Jihadi or mebbe Alex Salmond, I’ll be putting the pedal to the metal and I’ll gie em a skelpit lug wit me bumper.”
Scottish Driving tests are a bit different to ours, all the instructor asks you to do is move forward in first gear for one metre, then reverse backwards. Learners are even allowed the obligatory tinny or bottle of Scotch whilst taking the test. In fact, if you don’t have any alcohol on the dashboard, it is an instant fail.
