I READ Alison Rowat's column ("The sisterly advice Sturgeon can offer to Hillary Clinton," The Herald, February 5) and came to the conclusion that the only genuine similarity between the First Minister and the Democrat Presidential candidate is that they are both biologically female. Surely voters are not expected to base their support on gender alone.

The article missed the most important flaw of Ms Clinton's campaign which is trust. Unlike Ms Sturgeon, Mrs Clinton has as a very large amount of historical baggage which impacts negatively with the voters. To mention a few, there is the Whitewater scandal, the trip to Bosnia when she "misspoke" about being under sniper fire, her failure to send support to the Benghazi embassy resulting in four deaths and her subsequent attempt to spin away the blame, her use of an unprotected server to send emails which were top secret. The list goes on and on.

The effect of her actions is that a significant majority of US citizens do not trust her, and that is probably the biggest problem with the Democratic presidential nomination at stake.

I would suggest that the biggest lesson Ms Clinton could learn from the First Minister is to engender trust, but I fear she is much too far down the road to change.

David Stubley,

22 Templeton Crescent, Prestwick.