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Laura Kuenssberg

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

I didn't notice the stuff that he was buying.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

Some of them were presents for me.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

And when we mentioned one of the gifts that had been given to her, this particular necklace that she'd been bought by Murrow while they were on a campaigning trip to Shetland, she found that very difficult to talk about and really, really emotional to cast her mind back to how she feels he had betrayed her.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

But time and again, she was absolutely adamant that she knew absolutely nothing.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

She basically didn't notice.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

Where we get then to the question of her job as the leader of the party, that means that she was one of the party officers.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

That means she had a technical and specific responsibility to monitor the accounts.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

When I asked her about that, she was like, well, what about the motorhome?

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

Well, I didn't think anything of it.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

It didn't stand out to me, this entry line of tens of thousands of pounds for motor vehicles.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

What about when there was a drop of Β£300,000 one year in the party accounts?

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

She didn't particularly recall that.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

And Henry, do you think that that will be convincing to her political critics who are also, frankly, you know, sometimes other rival politicians will play a game with this, won't they?

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

It will be deeply helpful for opposition parties to the SNP in Scotland and their rivals in Westminster to carry all of this on.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

But do you think that she is in reputational trouble, I suppose, over this question of the accounts, even though the police made a decision not to charge her?

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

Oh, she would have been doing it with great force and great ability, I think.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

It's one of the things about this story which makes it, I was going to say gives it such pathos, but what a ridiculously pompous thing to say that.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

I'd normally leave that to Paddy, is that she was one of the biggest political stars of her generation.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

And her political career has ended with massive and profound success.

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Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

And how did it end?