Cast your minds back to March 2021. Back then, Britain was emerging from lockdown, the Americans were in place in Afghanistan and Thorntons still had shops. Up in Edinburgh meanwhile, the Salmond Inquiry was raging. The timely leak from a parliamentary committee which concluded that Nicola Sturgeon had misled Holyrood prompted a flurry of accusations
Ministers have forced watchdogs to take a “very rare” step around information connected to the Alex Salmond Inquiry, which is embroiled in a transparency probe, it can be revealed.
Scottish ministers have claimed they sent and received no WhatsApp or text messages during the height of the Alex Salmond inquiry and while negotiating the SNP’s coalition deal with the Scottish Greens.