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Former First Minister Alex Salmond said in his own evidence that a number of officials should âconsider their positionâ THERE are not many parties in the world that, a couple of months or so before a crucial election, would let their leader and former leader get into a public legal battle likely to lead to the effective political death of one of them. Yet that is what we are seeing in the SNP, in the struggle between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon as it moves towards a climax this week. Last Friday, Alex gave a persuasive performance as an honest man wronged. He went through six hours of interrogation by a committee of the Scottish Parliament, all calm and controlled except he had a hacking cough and needed a rest from time to time. The high standard he set will have to be at least matched by Nicola tomorrow if she is to quell all the whispers at Holyrood about her job being on the line.
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The Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross said the Sturgeon-Salmond saga had brought sleaze and scandal to the heart of Scottish politics following the former-First Minister s inquiry appearance.
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Updated 26/02/2021 15:46 GMT
Alex Salmond Hits Out At Former Protege Nicola Sturgeon At Holyrood Inquiry
Ex-SNP leader also makes dramatic suggestion Scotland s failed leadership is not fit for independence.
Alex Salmond has lashed out at his successor and former protege Nicola Sturgeon, saying Scotland’s leadership “has failed” and is not fit to take the country to independence.
In his long-awaited appearance before a Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment claims made against him, the former first minister alleged a “calculated and deliberate suppression of key evidence”.
The former SNP leader also said any move to independence must be accompanied by institutions whose leadership can protect citizens from “arbitrary authority.”