Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond (Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Alex Salmond claims his reported remarks about the SNP being captured by “loony tune transgender warriors” are inaccurate, insisting those were not his “exact words”.
The Alba party leader and former first minister of Scotland is alleged to have made the comment to Scottish broadcaster Jim Spence, who reported it in
“If you’d told me seven years ago that the party that I once led would be captured by around a hundred loony tune transgender warriors I’d have laughed at you,” Salmond purportedly said.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon condemned the alleged comments, describing his words as “pretty offensive” and “a complete mischaracterisation of reality”.