There was every danger that the resignation of Mhairi Black from the SNP could have been one of those events that passed entirely without notice. Political parties after all, whilst rarely shy in boasting about growth in membership or the courting of high-profile supporters, tend to be more circumspect in what they say when things start to go the other way and household names stop paying into the coffers.

But like all resignations, they mean nothing if they aren’t accompanied by a publicity-creating statement to announce it, and are usually a less than subtle way of settling a few scores on the way out of the door.

Mhairi Black’s resignation, reported exclusively by The Herald, was different. She took a general broadside at multiple issues she disagreed with but a Geoffrey Howe or a Robin Cook evisceration it was not. Like much of the promise a young(er) Mhairi Black showed, the final departure failed to deliver and was met with a shrug of the shoulders and a general “so what” from so many.

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Predictably there was no hiding from the LGB and TQ quagmire issues that have now become synonymous with the SNP. Indeed, there is more than a hint of irony that one of the main reasons cited by Ms Black for walking was what she sees as the SNP’s roll-back on trans rights – something I’m certain her fellow resignee Joanna Cherry would have spat her tea out at on reading.

In more ways than either would care to admit, Black shares a........

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