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Damage inflicted by the former first minister on his protege could have serious consequences in May’s Holyrood elections, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle<br>

play-icon Video report by ITV News Scotland Correspondent Peter Smith Alex Salmond has questioned the Crown Office’s “unprecedented and highly irregular actions” after it intervened to have his evidence redacted a day before he was due to give evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into the Scottish Government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment claims against him.The former first ministers legal team are calling for the Lord Advocate to explain the “astonishing” interventi...

NICOLA Sturgeon has denied pressuring Scotland’s prosecution service to censor explosive evidence about her to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex…

Few spectacles are more horribly watchable than a political feud. From Caesar and Pompey in the ancient world to Gordon Brown versus Tony Blair in the modern one, feuds are riveting and often barely believable in their intensity. During the Napoleonic wars, a pair of cabinet ministers even found time to fight a duel, in which the foreign secretary George Canning was shot in the thigh by the war minister Viscount Castlereagh. The feud between...

Alex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon’s husband and other members of her entourage of plotting to destroy his reputation and send him to prison.Peter Murrell, chief executive of the SNP, was among

Evidence from the former first minister has been taken down from parliament’s website and will be redacted over concerns raised by the Crown…

Nicola Sturgeon has challenged Alex Salmond to prove there was a conspiracy against him as she said he made claims "without a shred of evidence". Mr Salmond will give evidence this week to a Holyrood inquiry into the government's mishandling of harassment complaints against him. He said he has "documentary evidence" of a "malicious and concerted" attempt to remove him from public life. However, the Scottish First Minister said his claims of a...

The Crown Office wrote to the Scottish Parliament raising concern about possible contempt of court with the publication of Alex Salmond’s evidence.

Evidence from the former first minister has been taken down from parliament’s website and will be redacted over concerns raised by the Crown…

Evidence from the former first minister has been taken down from parliament’s website and will be redacted over concerns raised by the Crown…