Alex Salmond appeared before the Salmond Inquiry last month (Image: GETTY)
Scots go to the polls in May to elect the next Scottish Parliament.
The SNP are demanding a second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK, after losing the first vote in 2014.
Ms Sturgeon said: “This is about democracy and the ability of the people of Scotland to decide their future.”
Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, has suggested there could be another public vote “as early as late 2021”.
Boris Johnson has vowed to block any second referendum on breaking up Britain (Image: EXPRESS )
He added a referendum should take place “as quick as is practically possible”.
UK Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick accepted last May that he had approved a £1billion east London housing development unlawfully IN recent days I have noted an increasing clamour across certain media outlets and, controversially, in the Holyrood chamber itself, for our First Minister to resign. The Conservatives tell us that she has breached the ministerial code, even before we have had the opportunity to see the deliberations of the relevant investigating body, which, incidentally, is not the one in the headlines right now. Memories of unlawful activities in another Parliament came to my mind, so I carried out a limited check of the records going back just 18 months.
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