Nicola Sturgeon

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Newscast · Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the BBC · 31 May 2026 podcast

But despite being cleared, I've still spent a week with having the finger of suspicion pointed at me.

And that is...

The question that started this section of our discussion was, am I angry at him?

Yes, I'm angry, but I'm also carrying a degree of hurt and I think a degree of trauma about this whole episode resulted in me sitting in a police station under arrest.

What he has done to me

I think will take me a very, very long time to recover from.

Do you feel like you are a victim of his...?

I'm a working class girl from the west of Scotland.

I don't like victim terminology.

I will never think of myself as a victim.

The SNP is the victim in this crime and that hurts me too because I joined the SNP at age 16.

It's not just a political party to me and obviously I led it for almost a decade.

The SNP is like my extended family.

I've fundraised for it like its other members have.

I've had other people fundraise for election campaigns I was the candidate in.

I feel

utterly distraught and distressed about the fact the SNP has been subjected to this.

I refuse to think of myself as a victim, and I will never describe myself as a victim, but my former husband has subjected me to things that I don't think anybody should be subjected to.

And I know you do want to talk about the personal impact on you, and we'll come to that a bit more later on.

You wanted me to talk about the Shetland?

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