BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon has released a statement following her arrest and subsequent release 'I am certain I have committed no offence'. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest is seismic. It was unthinkable a few short months ago.But since her shock resignation earlier this year, there have been some nationalist figures emerging to suggest the SNP under Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell was secretive.
Leaked videos from around the time the police probe began showed Ms Sturgeon rubbishing suggestions all was not well with the SNP’s finances. The former first minister is now facing those very questions in a police interview suite under caution as a suspect.It has been suggested Ms Sturgeon's detention was inevitable given the other two names on the latest SNP financial accounts were previously arrested.
Ms Sturgeon's arrest will intensify the scandal that has engulfed Scotland's largest political party just months after sheAt the time, Ms Sturgeon said she was quitting because the job"takes its toll on you and all around you". She said she believed part of"serving well would be to know almost instinctively when the time is right" to step down, adding:"In my head and in my heart I know that time is now, that it is right for me and my party and for the country."
But months later, Mr Murrell was arrested - creating a sense of turmoil that has overshadowed the new leadership of Humza Yousaf,
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