Nicola Sturgeon

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

You know, there's a running joke in my constituency.

Even when I was First Minister, I used to sell the raffle tickets at the fundraiser events.

I've given part of my wages and all the time I've been a politician to the SNP.

I am one of those members and I am deeply sorry that it happened.

And yes, I think party leaders

should take responsibility for things that go wrong in their parties, and I have never shied away from doing that.

But I've never called on anybody to apologise for the crimes of other people, particularly when they have been investigated and cleared of any criminal wrongdoing themselves.

For my own sake, but for the sake of people out there, a lot of women who end up finding themselves blamed for the actions of the men in their lives, I'm not going to contribute to that kind of sense that I am responsible for somebody else's crimes.

I will take responsibility for the things I do, the decisions I make.

I'm sitting here with you right now.

answering questions because I believe strongly in that accountability.

But I am not responsible for the crimes that my former husband committed and I'm not going to apologise for somebody else's crimes.

But do you think you bear no responsibility for one of the biggest political scandals that took place on your watch as leader of that party?

That's a different thing to saying you're responsible for his crimes.

No, but it's not because he perpetrated a crime on the SNP

By definition, that included me as the party leader.

He misled, he deceived, he, as I heard the police talking about on Monday, created false invoices.

He went to great lengths to cover his tracks.

And I am not responsible for that.

I was misled, I was deceived, as party leader, as well as his wife.

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