hypotheticals, you should know better that it is inappropriate for a minister or an elected politician to comment on what is a life police investigation. i m just asking if you can imagine circumstances? again, i won t make this about they have been released without charge i think they ve not i ll keep that situation under review, but as a life police investigation when i m not keen to comment on for that very reason. you do except the, don t you, that this has been pretty catastrophic to your party the chief executive of the party arrested in april missing 30,000 members
have there been conditions placed on your arrest? i no. after your arrest. no, and i m not going to get into anything other than that. would nicola sturgeon have suspended nicola sturgeon? look, i ve done nothing wrong. it s for others to comment as they see fit, but that s my position and i m entitled to take it. i m going to go in to my house now. thank you. former first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon. live now to our correspondent, jamie mcivor. lots of reaction coming in and a lot of people talking about how defiant she sounded there. she sounded there. indeed, as a la er b she sounded there. indeed, as a lawyer by education she sounded there. indeed, as a lawyer by education nicola i she sounded there. indeed, as a i lawyer by education nicola sturgeon is well aware of how restricted she is well aware of how restricted she is in what she can say at this point in a life police investigation. however she is certainly defiant insofar as she is absolutely adamant she has, in
i know i m a public figure, i accept what comes with that, but i m also a human being that s entitled to a bit of privacy, and my neighbours are also entitled to a bit of privacy as well. so thank you very much just now. have you considered stepping back from the snp? i ve done nothing wrong, and that is the only thing i m going to assert today. have there been conditions placed on your arrest? - no. after your arrest. no, and i m not going to get into anything other than that. would nicola sturgeon have suspended nicola sturgeon? look, i ve done nothing wrong. it s for others to comment as they see fit, but that s my position and i m entitled to take it. i m going to go in to my house now. thank you. here s the assessment of our scotland correspondent, jamie mcivor. asa as a lawyer by education nicola sturgeon is well aware of how restricted she is and what she can say at this point in a life police
to take it. i m going to go in to my house now. thank you. that was former first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon. live now to our correspondent, jamie mcivor. lots of commentators describing her as defiant, what is the reaction? the statement in the last hour or so, and this is a life police investigation and people need to be very careful in what they say. in terms of the politics as opposed to the police investigation, certainly very powerful to hear nicola sturgeon speaking this afternoon. this was the first time she had been seen or spoken in public since she was arrested and questioned by police last sunday afternoon. in terms of what she actually did say, very much reiterating her position, thatis very much reiterating her position, that is to say she believes she is innocent. she obviously has no intentions of resigning from the snp for the moment, standing aside from the party. those that have called
out of the blue. that came. she was in complete charge of a party with no internal or external rivals, the opposition parties were in a flat line, and she had won various elections in a row, but she suddenly departed. she has insisted that had nothing to do with operation branch form, but you knew it was coming, and it had played no part in her decision to stand down. she said she had just had too much of it, and did not have enough in the tank left. it is all inevitably leading to speculation, and very limited of course, because this is following the laws of contempt. we course, because this is following the laws of contempt. course, because this is following the laws of contempt. we heard from the laws of contempt. we heard from the snp as well, the laws of contempt. we heard from the snp as well, as the laws of contempt. we heard from the snp as well, as an the laws of contempt. we heard from the snp as well, as an snp the snp as well, as an snp spokesperson said these i