Nicola Sturgeon

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

And I loved, I had a, and I think I've seen pictures of me with it on, with this blue suit that the necklace really went beautifully with.

And so that's the...

These were things that my husband gave to me as gifts that I had no reason to question whether he could have... Of course he could have afforded them on the salary he was on.

Factored out my salary.

And to then find out that these were gifts given to me that he bought with the party's money causes a level of, I don't know, pain, bewilderment.

I don't know, I just, I'm not sure I'm going to try.

I'm just not sure I will ever properly come to terms with that.

Why do you think he did it?

I don't know.

And I think over the, you know, over the last three years since that awful day the police turned up at our house,

I've never got to a point, and maybe Monday was the point I got to where I thought I knew the scale of this, because I was still reading things on Monday that I had never known about, items that I had genuinely never seen.

And that's when he pled guilty this week, just if people hadn't understood that.

And then some of the reporting out of that.

And I think... So over the last three years, I've been angry, I've been hurt, I've been...

I found it very difficult to deal with this because up until just over a year ago, I was also under investigation.

And I've had periods, as I think any human being would, of thinking or hoping rather than thinking, maybe there's some innocent explanation for all of this that is going to emerge and make it all make sense.

But I think, to get to your question, I think the thing right now I am finding hardest, well, not hardest because there's many other aspects of it that are probably harder, but one of the things that, I'm a rational person.

I like to understand why things happen or at least be able to work out a theory about why things happen.

And I can't, I don't know because

There was no need for him to use somebody else's money to buy the kind of things that he was buying.

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