By Guy Adams for the Daily Mail

Published: 19:49 EST, 20 March 2015 | Updated: 18:17 EST, 21 March 2015

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The year is 1987, and in an upstairs bedroom of a pebbledash house in the Ayrshire village of Dreghorn, a remarkable political journey is about to commence.

Here, beneath CND stickers and posters of the pop band Kajagoogoo, who inspired her bog brush haircut, 16-year-old Nicola Sturgeon fills out an application form to join the Scottish Nationalist Party.

The working-class daughter of an electrician and a housewife, she is driven by a burning hatred of Margaret Thatcher.

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Nicola Sturgeon joined the Scottish Nationalist Party as a teenager (left) and has spent most of her life deeply-rooted in politics

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