Nicola Sturgeon

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

One of the things there's been a lot of discussion of this week was your decision to say no comment during hours of that police interview.

You've been accused of doing that in the way that shows that you were trying to cover something up.

But can you explain to people why you did that?

And I know that you later gave a written submission to the police.

If you're, as you are today, very confident that you've done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, would you publish that written submission?

I'd take legal advice on that because it was a document that was passed to the Crown Office and to the police.

But, you know, I can't think of anything in it that I wouldn't want.

I mean, basically, it's the kind of... It's interesting, some of the things we've been talking about and some of the items that I've read about in the press in recent days, I was never asked about by the police.

So that's another factor in this.

There are things that I genuinely, as of Monday, was learning for the first time.

But let me answer your question.

When I found myself arrested and being interviewed by the police, I...

I was in a state of almost complete collapse.

I was terrified.

I was bewildered.

I was in a state of high stress and anxiety.

I instructed a lawyer, a very experienced lawyer, who told me that he was going to advise me to do the same as he advises every client in that situation, is to not answer the questions then in such a state of stress.

And if I wanted to do that afterwards, I could do that in the way I did.

I accepted that advice and I would challenge anybody in the state I was in there to go in and do something different to what a very experienced lawyer was advising them to do.

In the aftermath of that interview, I prepared a very detailed written document answering the questions that had been put to me that was sent by my lawyer to both the Crown Office and the police in the summer of 2023.

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