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NICOLA Sturgeon’s future in politics may rest not so much in the hands of the MSPs on Holyrood’s Harassment Complaints Committee but in those of top Irish lawyer James Hamilton QC. The barrister is expected to publish his report shortly on whether the First Minister breached the Ministerial Code in relation to the events surrounding Alex Salmond and the bitter aftermath of his successful legal challenge against the Scottish Government. Sturgeon asked Hamilton to conduct the inquiry an...

MICHAEL Russell has accused the Scottish Tories of bringing full-on Trumpism to Holyrood in their attacks on the First Minister after she gave…

DOUGLAS Ross has accused the SNP of an abuse of power and covering over the truth following a botched Scottish Government investigation into unproven harassment complaints against Alex Salmond.

Nicola Sturgeons government spent an extra £200,000 of taxpayers money on a doomed legal battle with Alex Salmond, even after lawyers said she was bound to fail.

Douglas Ross barely mentioned his boss Boris Johnson, even when asked directly about him DOUGLAS Ross MP was not able to say that his boss Boris Johnson is an asset to the Tory party in Scotland as he dodges questions on whether the Prime Minister should resign. The Scottish Tory leader was on the BBCs The Sunday Show discussing what his party is looking for from the Scottish Governments response to the coronavirus pandemic and the Tory bid to have votes of no confidence in John Swinney an...

SNP voter Paul Higgins was furious when he watched Nicola Sturgeon being questioned by MSPs for eight hours last week. “It was brutal,” he says. “It was almost like everyone had judged her before she sat in the chair. They were out for blood.” He was so angry he immediately signed up to become a member of the SNP for the first time. And he wasn’t alone, with the party gaining more than 7000 new members in the 24 hours following the session at the Holyrood committee, which is exa...

Ms Sturgeon is joined by cabinet members and medical experts around three to four days a week. However, the First Minister used the majority of a recent briefing to criticise her predecessor Alex Salmond, claiming he was peddling conspiracy theories. The row surrounds whether Ms Sturgeon breached the Scottish Government ministerial code and lied to parliament over meetings between the pair in 2018 regarding unproven harassment claims made against the former First Minister. Ms Sturgeon denied th...

THE BBC received a barrage of complaints over an inaccurate report on its main evening network news programme that Alex Salmond wanted Nicola Sturgeon to resign. Sarah Smith, the broadcaster’s Scotland editor, made the incorrect statement to viewers across the UK who had tuned in to watch the Six O’Clock News on February 26, the day the former First Minister appeared at the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government’s mishandling of complaints against him. Appearing on camera, th...

THE BBC received hundreds of complaints after Nicola Sturgeon made comments about Alex Salmond during a Covid briefing.

NICOLA Sturgeon yesterday told MSPs she would release the investigation into potential Ministerial Code breaches on the day it was published.