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The former first minister had been asked to give evidence about the Scottish Government’s botched investigation of him on Tuesday.

Two inquiries into what the first minister knew about claims against her predecessor threaten to split party ahead of crucial polls

NICOLA Sturgeon is looking forward to “setting the record straight” and taking on “absurd, contradictory and utterly baseless conspiracy…

IT’S going to be a busy couple of weeks for MSPs. The SNP chief executive Peter Murrell is up in front of them for a second time on Monday,…

MSPs are considering quitting the Alex Salmond inquiry over fears it could be

Four new additions were announced. There was no mention of Cherry in the statement. She revealed she had been given little warning of being dropped as justice and home affairs spokeswoman, a role she had held for almost six years. Writing in the National on Friday she said: “I got 30 minutes’ notice of the announcement, no proper explanation of why I was being sacked and no acknowledgement of or any thanks at all for the work I have done in that role over the last five-and-a-half year...

THE probe into the Scottish Government’s handling of harassment allegations against Alex Salmond is “in crisis,” one of the inquiry’s senior…

THE Holyrood committee probing the Scottish Governments botched handling of harassment allegations made against Alex Salmond have said they won’t…

WHEN people trust a political leader with their lives, the more banal matters of day-to-day government tend to look after themselves. Right now, many thousands of vulnerable Scots are trusting Nicola Sturgeon with their lives and their long-term health. Those of us who dwell in Scotland’s self-obsessed media bubble are disdainful of anything that speaks of raw human need in the midst of politics. We find it difficult to grasp the concept of people arranging their days around the First Min...

THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair is demanding to know whether the Scottish Government has been censoring evidence to it for “political” reasons. The inquiry tonight wrote to the Government’s top law officer, Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, asking if redactions were made on strictly legal grounds. It asked if redactions were done objectively by officials, rather than the withholding of part or whole documents being “commented on and cleared at a political level”...