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The former First Minister Alex Salmond has been giving bombshell evidence to a Holyrood inquiry today  Mr Salmond alleges he was victim of a conspiracy by senior SNP figures to force him out of public life  He lashed out at Nicola Sturgeon for casting doubt on the court verdict that he was innocent of allegations  Mr Salmond insisted his evidence to the committee would not have been censored by the House of Commons He warned leadership failures raised questions about whether Scottish governm...

THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair began as a look into how the Scottish Government bungled a sexual misconduct investigation into…

ALEX Salmond has claimed the leadership of Scotland has failed the country and suggested it is not fit to lead it to independence.

Salmond calls for string of resignations including Sturgeon’s husband Kate Devlin UP NEXT Alex Salmond has called on senior members of the Scottish government and the SNP, including Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, to resign over allegations of a conspiracy against him. But the former first minister of Scotland stopped short of saying his successor, who he accuses of breaking the ministerial code, should stand down, saying that was a judgement for others.  During a highly-antici...

Salmond says Sturgeon broke ministerial code Updated: 26/02/2021, 7:45 pm Alex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of breaking the ministerial code as he demanded the resignations of a series of top government and SNP officials. He suggested the first minister, the lord advocate and the government’s permanent secretary had “failed” Scotland, and were undermining the case for independence. During an explosive six-hour session at Holyrood, Mr Salmond alleged that a group of senior figures p...

The debate over Scottish independence hotted up yesterday after former SNP leader Alex Salmond gave incendiary evidence to a cross-party committee at Holyrood. Salmond accused current First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former colleagues, including Peter Murrell, Sturgeon’s husband and SNP chief executive, of engaging in ‘a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort’ to destroy his reputation and career, even to the point of having him jailed. The increasingly ugly row is now re...

Comment Forensic Alex Salmond sought to finish off his protege, but it may well be voters who do the job A Scottish electorate recently won over by Nicola Sturgeon will think again after the former First Ministers scathing testimony today 26 February 2021 • 8:56pm Former Scottish National Party leader and former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond prepares to give his opening statement to The Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints at Holyrood  Credit:  A...

Alex Salmond calls for Nicola Sturgeons husband and the Lord Advocate to consider their positions Salmond called for a spate of resignations in the wake of Governments botched probe into him 18:04, 26 FEB 2021 Peter Murrell, husband of Nicola Sturgeon , is chief executive of the SNP (Image: Getty Images) Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. S...

The Crown Office is to be ordered to release material that Alex Salmond claims will show he was the victim of a plot by his former political allies.The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of complaints

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